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37 ASK interview, August 26, 1982, pp. 8, 16–17.

38 Fosdick interview, p. 2; ASK interview, December 14,1987, p.10; GFK Diary, April 19,1981. See also, for some perceptive psychological speculation on these matters, Harper, American Visions of Europe, pp. 148–54.

39 GFK interview, August 25, 1982, pp. 4–6.

40 GFK Diary, February 13–May 12, 1965, translation by Igor Biryukov.

41 The letter, unfinished, is in the GFK Diary for November 1987 with a note: “evidently written (clearly by myself) at some time in the 1960’s.” GFK showed it to his editor, Ted Weeks, who thought it “searching and excellent,” but it was never published.

42 GFK diary fragment, July 5, 1964 [misdated 1960]; GFK Desk Diary, June 10, 1965 [begun on blank pages running from May 17]. The letters to ASK are in the GFK Papers, 24:5.

43 GFK Desk Diary, January 14, 1965; Gellhorn to Nikki Dobrski, June 14, 1964, in Moorehead, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, p. 310; GFK, Memoirs, I, 90–91; GFK to Gellhorn, May 21, 1965, GFK Papers, 16:6. Gellhorn’s many letters are in this file.

44 GFK Diary, September 27, 1959. For Hatzfeldt, see GFK’s dictated 1998 memorandum on their relationship, GFK Papers, 19:10; and GFK to Hatzfeldt, January 10, 1997, ibid.

45 Goodman interview, pp. 8–10; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, pp. 35–37; Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 218–21. I have also relied, here, on the State Department documentation in FRUS: 1964–68, XIV, 462–63, 467–73; and the extensive coverage in The New York Times, especially “Short Cab Ride in India Began Her Odyssey,” April 22, 1967.

46 GFK and ASK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 38; Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 312–13, 327–29; GFK to Louis Fischer, April 24, 1967, GFK Papers, 13:8; JEK to GFK, July 23, 1967, JEK Papers.

47 “Pravda Denounces the U.S. Over Mrs. Alliluyeva,” New York Times, May 27, 1967; also Foy Kohler’s report of a conversation with Yuri N. Tcherniakov, the Soviet charge d’affaires in Washington, May 31, 1967, in FRUS: 1964–68, XIV, 488–90.

48 Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 435–36; William P. Bundy interview, pp. 17– 18.

49 Alliluyeva to GFK, April 28, 1976, GFK Papers, 38:5. Nicholas Thompson first alerted me to this letter in Hawk and the Dove, pp. 257–58.

50 GFK and ASK interview, December 13, 1987, pp. 37, 39; JEK unpublished memoir; Taplin interview, pp. 21–22.

51 Lewis Nichols, “Visit with George Kennan,” New York Times, October 29, 1967. What follows is from GFK’s “Account of Trip to Africa, May–June, 1967,” GFK Papers, 237:1. For Hochschild, see Hochschild, Half the Way Home.

52 GFK to JEK, June 28, 1967, JEK Papers. See also GFK to Donhoff, March 15, 1965, GFK Papers, 58.

53 GFK “Account of Second African Journey,” ibid., 237:2.

54 GFK to Waldemar Nielsen, October 19, 1967, ibid., 60. See also, for a fuller version of this argument, GFK, “Hazardous Courses in Southern Africa.” Foreign Affairs 49 (January 1971), 218–36

55 GFK interview, September 5, 1984, p. 1; Goodman interview, pp. 20–21; GFK to JEK, June 26, 1967, JEK Papers; GFK to KWK, December 21, 1966, and October 16, 1967, ibid. See also, for an early comment on Cold War revisionist history, GFK to Gar Alperovitz, January 11, 1965, GFK Papers, 58.

56 Nichols, “Visit with George Kennan.”

57 GFK to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., February 17, 1993, handwritten, copy provided by GFK. John Lamberton Harper has emphasized the Adams-Kennan connection in his American Visions of Europe, especially chap. 4. See also, for the suggestion that Kennan was the better writer, Lukacs, Kennan: Study of Character, p. 6.

58 The passages referred to here are in GFK, Memoirs, I, 98–88, 109–12. See also Chapter Seven, above; Thompson, Hawk and the Dove, pp. 237–38; and, for the Ramparts article, Saunders, Cultural Cold War, pp. 381– 90.

59 Lukacs, Kennan: Study of Character, p. 44.

60 See D. W. Brogan’s introduction to Adams, Education of Henry Adams, 1946 reprint edition, pp. xi–xii.

61 GFK address, “The Library and the Student Radical,” Swarthmore College, December 9, 1967, GFK Papers, 265:3.

62 GFK interview, September 4, 1984, pp. 13–14; GFK, Democracy and the Student Left. See also “Head of Swarthmore Dies During Protest,” New York Times, January 17, 1969.

63 GFK, Democracy and the Student Left, pp. 121, 124–26, 132–33, 136–37, 140– 41, 153–54, 160–63, 190–93, 199, 208.

64 Dilworth interview, p. 1; GFK to William C. Sullivan, October 22, 1968, and December 11, 1970, GFK Papers, 46:17; GFK to J. P. Trinkaus, November 9, 1970, ibid., 52:19.

65 GFK to JEK, November 25, 1967, JEK Papers.

66 GFK Diary, August 19, 1968; ibid., August 5, 1956.

67 GFK “Account of Cruise to Denmark, July 31–August 5, 1968,” quoted in GFK, Sketches from a Life, p. 225; GFK to JEK, August 18, 1968, JEK Papers.