Farls’ review makes me really want to read this book. Kennan, it seems to me, is constantly understood only superficially, and Nitze is criminally under-studied. I was a pretty poor/disinterested college student, but I loved every minute of my senior-year “U.S. Foreign Policy From 1898 To The Present” course from Cold War revisionist historian Lloyd Gardner, who has spent a great deal of time on the two men and shared some of his expertise with the class.