The Kennan Diaries Edited by Frank Costigliola (Norton, 768 pages, $39.95) The career of George F. Kennan (1904-2005), the diplomatist whose name is chiefly associated with the Cold War, peaked when Kennan was in his early forties. On February 22,…
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Knopf, 752 pages, $37.50) Willa Cather’s literary reputation is even now, nearly 70 years after her death, less than clear. In her day—born in 1873, she published…
