Chapter Four recounts the life and adventures of a remarkable man, George Kennan.
small town (Norwalk, Ohio) boy . . . elementary school education. . . telegraph business sends him to Siberia for two years . . . book results, TENT LIFE IN SIBERIA in which he describes his many near encounters with death . . . back in America, and bored, lost, unable to settle. . . return to Siberia to write, for the Tsar's government, a book about the horrible traitors imprisoned in Siberia . . . Instead he becomes enamored with these convicts (some of whom were simply terrorists.) SIBERIA AND THE EXILE SYSTEM is the book describing this part of Kennan's life. Kennan is related to the later George Kennan, political advisor to presidents and a way who say clearly (Vietnam, Iraq) when others failed.
Remainder of chapter describes how the imprisoned rebels George Kennan sympathized with led, eventually, to Stalin and Lenin.
small town (Norwalk, Ohio) boy . . . elementary school education. . . telegraph business sends him to Siberia for two years . . . book results, TENT LIFE IN SIBERIA in which he describes his many near encounters with death . . . back in America, and bored, lost, unable to settle. . . return to Siberia to write, for the Tsar's government, a book about the horrible traitors imprisoned in Siberia . . . Instead he becomes enamored with these convicts (some of whom were simply terrorists.) SIBERIA AND THE EXILE SYSTEM is the book describing this part of Kennan's life. Kennan is related to the later George Kennan, political advisor to presidents and a way who say clearly (Vietnam, Iraq) when others failed.
Remainder of chapter describes how the imprisoned rebels George Kennan sympathized with led, eventually, to Stalin and Lenin.
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