Imagine writing to the subject of your research, someone who shaped some of the most consequential events of the 20th century, and mentioning that you earned a varsity letter in tennis in high school.
God this rules so hard; no one does it like Anders Stephanson
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Anders Stephanson & George Kennan, Stephanson–Kennan Correspondence, NLR 156, November–December 2025
An inter-generational exchange between one of the Cold War’s originating thinkers and a young Marxist scholar studying his work. Problems of American foreign policy, definitions of the national intere...