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 On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned.
John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947, Strategies of Containment- A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy, We Now Know- Rethinking Cold War History, The Landscape of History and Surprise, Security and the American Experience. George F. Kennan, An American Life won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is a 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.
An extraordinary treatise on the need to teach the principles of
sound strategy to today's leaders... It makes sense of our world,
but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical
judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a
moral compass, that warns against the hubris of an angry Bonaparte
on the turn in a Russian winter, against leaders who do not listen
or learn. A training manual for our troubled times
*The Times*
On Grand Strategy is many things - a thoughtful validation of the
liberal arts, an argument for literature over social science, an
engaging reflection on university education and some timely advice
that lasting victory comes from winning what you can rather than
all that you want.
*The New York Times*
A brilliant book - learned, seductively written, deep
*New Criterion*
Gaddis has indisputably earned the right to plow different fields
of historical inquiry, which he does in On Grand Strategy with
self-evident glee and peripatetic curiosity
*Washington Post*
A long walk with a single, delightful mind, which makes it much
easier for the reader to comprehend the lessons that cohere across
continents and millennia
*Wall Street Journal*
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