Who is George Frost Kennan and what is his importance in the nonfiction book, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen,…?

George Frost Kennan was born on February 16, 1904 to Kossuth and Florence Kennan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother died and his father married Louise Wheeler when he was five years of age. He was educated at St. John's Military Academy and Princeton. Kenna entered the Foreign Service where he stayed until 1953. He married Annelise Sorenson who he met in Berlin.