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    The Cold War

    John Lewis Gaddis

    In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning… In this book, the truth behind every spy thriller you’ve read: why America and…

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    On Grand Strategy

    John Lewis Gaddis

    The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume … a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader. -The Wall Street Journal

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    We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

    John Lewis Gaddis

    Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? This text presents a…

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    On Grand Strategy

    John Lewis Gaddis

    ‘A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present’ New Statesman

    John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for…

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    George F. Kennan: An American Life

    John Lewis Gaddis

    The full scope of George Kennan’s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today’s most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost…

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    Surprise, Security, and the American Experience

    John Lewis Gaddis

    September 11, 2001 was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped U.S. grand strategy. How successful our current strategies will be in…

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    The Cold War: A New History

    John Lewis Gaddis

    Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work…

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    On Grand Strategy

    John Lewis Gaddis

    A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades

    For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year…

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    An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis’s We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

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    What really happened when the world’s two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and…

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    The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947

    John Lewis Gaddis

    This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces – domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks…

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    The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War

    John Lewis Gaddis (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio University)

    How have the United States and the Soviet Union managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War without actually going to war with each other? John Gaddis…

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    The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations

    John Lewis Gaddis (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio University)

    A collection of eleven essays explaining how and why the United States forty year struggle with the former Soviet Union has finally ended. The book contains interpretations of the American…

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    La Guerre Froide

    John Lewis Gaddis

    La guerre est finie. Un nouvel affrontement, d'une nature et d'une ampleur inedites, commence. George Orwell lui donnera un nom: la guerre froide. De 1947 a la chute du mur…

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    Strategies of Containment

    John Lewis Gaddis (Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University)

    Carrying the history of containment through the end of the Cold War, this book begins with Franklin D Roosevelt’s postwar plans. It provides an analysis of George F Kennan’s original…

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    History, Big History, & Metahistory

    Is there a science of history ? Must historians be scientists? What is history anyway? Celebrated researchers and historians–including Pulitzer-Prize winner John Lewis Gaddis and Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann–debate these…

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    The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

    John Lewis Gaddis (Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University)

    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…

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