John Lewis Gaddis

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1) The landscape of history: how historians map the past

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What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while...

2) We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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Did the Soviet Union want a world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China,...

3) The Cold War: a new history

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2005

4) George F. Kennan: an American life

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2011

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A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

5) Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: an interpretive history

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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America and the world

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Wiley

Pub. Date

c1978

6) The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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Contemporary American history

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Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

1972

7) On grand strategy

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Gaddis, John Lewis

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Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Pub. Date

2018.

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Distilled from the Yale University seminar, "Studies in Grand Strategy," a master class in strategic thinking surveys statecraft from the ancient Greeks through FDR and beyond as vital historical lessons for future world leaders. "John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in [this book], Gaddis reflects...