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9. Mai 2024 · John Lewis Gaddis is a professor of military and naval history and the director of the Brady Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University. He is a renowned expert on the life of George Kennan and the Cold War, and has won several awards for his books on these topics.
Vor 3 Tagen · Conversely, John Lewis Gaddis characterizes negotiations of the 1950s as "an embarrassing series of American reversals," suggesting a lack of real US commitment to arms control efforts.
- 10 October 1963
- 5 August 1963
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Arms control
12. Mai 2024 · The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis. By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Politics. Some twenty years after publication, The Cold War no longer matches its subtitle, “A New History,” but it remains a useful book about the conflict that shaped international politics for nearly half a century and, not incidentally, came close to ending human civilization.
—John Lewis Gaddis, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning George F. Kennan: An American Life A must-read. Chen Jian’s book illuminates Zhou Enlai’s life from the earliest years to his final days with nuance, empathy, and scholarly depth.
Vor 5 Tagen · Pinker describes the post-war period as a ‘long peace’, thus employing the highly contested term first suggested by John Lewis Gaddis in 1986 as a pertinent label for the Cold War as a whole. Yet many historians of the Cold War tend to disagree with this label, and would certainly not be ready to dismiss nuclear deterrence as ...
9. Mai 2024 · John Lewis Gaddis, ‘Was the Truman Doctrine a real turning point?’, Foreign Affairs, 53 (January 1974), 386–402; John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know (Oxford, 1997). The dissertation was eventually made into a book ( The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 ), which won the Bancroft Award in 1972.
Vor 4 Tagen · As historian John Lewis Gaddis makes clear in his acclaimed Kennan biography, his subject was a curious mixture. Kennan was a lonely child whose mother died shortly after his birth, a...
