John Lewis Gaddis
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John Lewis Gaddis holds the Robert A. Lovett Professorship of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan.
He is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States during the Cold War, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War. He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he directed the Contemporary History Institute there.
Works:
- The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 - (1972, 2d ed., 2000)
- Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History - (1978, 2d ed., 1990)
- Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy - (1982)
- The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War - (1987)
- The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reconsiderations, Implications, Provocations - (1992)
- We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History - (1997) ISBN 0198780710
- The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past - (2002)
- Surprise, Security, and the American Experience - (2004)