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John Lewis Gaddis

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PhD History University of Texas at Austin
Masters History University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors History University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, John Lewis Gaddis is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life , his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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John Lewis Gaddis's Published Works

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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002) (527)
International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War (2011) (411)
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War (2005) (359)
The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System (1986) (358)
The Cold War: A New History (2005) (347)
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1988) (297)
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1998) (286)
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2005) (160)
A Grand Strategy of Transformation (2002) (120)
The Emerging Post‐Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War* (1983) (113)
The Road to Yalta: Soviet Foreign Relations, 1941-1945@@@The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972) (108)
Toward the Post-Cold War World (1991) (98)
Order and justice in international relations (2003) (96)
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy 1945-1950 (1978) (92)
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An interpretive history (1978) (78)
The Corporatist Synthesis: A Skeptical View* (1986) (76)
The Long Peace (1987) (69)
We now know (1997) (66)
Grand Strategy in the Second Term (2005) (64)
Cold War Orthodoxy Restated@@@The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947. (1973) (60)
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (1992) (51)
Reconsiderations: The Cold War Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point? (1974) (44)
Expanding the Data Base: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Enrichment of Security Studies (1987) (41)
The Tragedy of Cold War History (1993) (39)
"Order and Justice Beyond the Nation-State: Europe's Competing Paradigms" (2003) (33)
Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins (1989) (33)
George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011) (32)
Hanging tough paid off (1989) (30)
The Cold War, the Long Peace, and the Future (1992) (29)
History, Theory, and Common Ground (1997) (29)
NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat Reconsidered (1980) (28)
Getting the End of the Cold War Wrong (1993) (26)
New Conceptual Approaches to the Study of American Foreign Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1990) (25)
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 (2000) (24)
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb (1999) (22)
Containment: A Reassessment (1977) (22)
Containment: Its Past and Future (1981) (21)
The Rise, Fall and Future of Détente (1983) (15)
Cold War statesmen confront the bomb : nuclear diplomacy since 1945 (2000) (15)
On Grand Strategy (2018) (15)
The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 Joyce Kolko Gabriel Kolko (1972) (13)
On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History (1996) (12)
Landscape History (2012) (11)
Nuclear Weapons, the End of the Cold War, and the Future of the International System (1992) (11)
Achieving large ends with limited means: grand strategy in global health. (2010) (10)
The Cold War Warmed Over@@@The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947@@@The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954@@@The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War (1974) (9)
Order versus Justice: An American Foreign Policy Dilemma (2003) (8)
The Question of Containment: A Reply to John Lewis Gaddis (1978) (7)
Containment: Concept And Policy (1986) (6)
The Truman presidency: The insecurities of victory: the United States and the perception of the Soviet threat after World War II (1989) (6)
Grand strategies in the Cold War (2010) (6)
Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations From Nixon to Reagan . By Garthoff Raymond L.. (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1985. Pp. xviii + 1147. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.) (1986) (5)
The Tragedy of Cold War History: Reflections on Revisionism (1994) (5)
[The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-48]: Comments (1984) (4)
The End of the Cold War: The Cold War, the Long Peace, and the Future (1992) (4)
THE SOVIET SIDE OF THE COLD WAR: A SYMPOSIUM (1991) (4)
Containment : concept and policy : based on a symposium cosponsored by the National Defense University and the Foreign Service Institute (1986) (3)
How Relevant was U.S. Strategy in Winning the Cold War (1992) (2)
RESCUING CHOICE FROM CIRCUMSTANCE: (2019) (2)
Cold War in the Balkans: American Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Communist Bulgaria, 1943-1947 Michael M. Boll (1986) (2)
The Nature of Contemporary History. Occasional Paper. (1990) (2)
After Yalta: America and the Origins of the Cold War (1973) (2)
Response to Painter and Lundestad (2007) (2)
Containing the Soviet Union : a critique of US policy (1987) (2)
An Approximate Analysis of Gaseous Film Cooling With Constant Fluid Properties (1971) (2)
War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy (2011) (1)
The Evolution of U.S. Policy Goals Toward the USSR in the Postwar Era (2019) (1)
An Inquiry into History, Big History, and Metahistory (2011) (1)
The Last Empire, for Now (2004) (1)
Reconsiderations: Containment: A Reassessment (1977) (1)
The Cold War: Some Lessons for Policymakers (1974) (1)
deborah welch larson. Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi, 380. $35.00 (1986) (1)
Conference on Soviet-American Relations, 1945–1950 (1988) (0)
Varieties of Containment@@@Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. (1983) (0)
Institution Building the Military (2007) (0)
American Diplomatic History: Two Centuries of Changing Interpretations Jerald A. Combs (1984) (0)
Randall B. Woods and Howard Jones. Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for Order. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1991. Pp. xiii, 335. Cloth $35.00, paper $14.95 (1992) (0)
The Cold War Begins: Soviet-American Conflict over Eastern Europe Lynn Etheridge Davis (1976) (0)
Professional Reading: "Can America Win the Next War?" (1976) (0)
The Unexpected John Foster Dulles: (2021) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Michael Balfour. The Adversaries: America, Russia, and the Open World, 1941–62. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. Pp. xv, 259. $25.00 (1982) (0)
Institution Building Civil Society (2007) (0)
Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War by Thomas G. Paterson (1975) (0)
From thunderbird to hawk to dove (1993) (0)
The United States and NATO: The Formative Years Lawrence S. Kaplan (1986) (0)
John Lewis Gaddis: The Origins of the Cold War (2012) (0)
The Old World Order (1999) (0)
WPO volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1981) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
10. Democracy and Foreign Policy (2017) (0)
A Two-Region Model of the Turbulent Boundary Layer, With Emphasis on Interfacial Conditions (1969) (0)
INO volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1982) (0)
WPO volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
Improved Linearized Velocity Profiles for Turbulent Free Shear Layers (1969) (0)
Introduction: History, Memory and Cognition (2016) (0)
Investigation of a Ramjet Using Boundary Layer Bleed in a Two-Dimensional Short Curved Wall Subsonic Diffuser. (1976) (0)
A Model for Large Eddy Contributions in Incompressible Turbulent Boundary Layers (1969) (0)
Reconsiderations: The Question of Containment (1978) (0)
Reply to the Commentaries (2013) (0)
Molding South Korean Youth (2007) (0)
Nuclear Weapons and Grand Strategy (2010) (0)
George F. Kennan: The Qualities of Greatness (2005) (0)
Security over Democracy (2007) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
The Origins of the Korean War. Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950 Bruce Cumings (1991) (0)
WPO volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
WPO volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1987) (0)
Engaging South Korean Intellectuals (2007) (0)
WPO volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
Yalta. By Clemens Diane Shaver. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. 356. $8.50.) (1972) (0)
Democracy and Foreign Policy (1952) (0)
Moving Beyond the Orthodox Liberal Model Finding Innovation in State-building (2012) (0)
WINNING AND LOSING INTERNATIONAL CRISES (2003) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Bush as Strategist (2003) (0)
CHAPTER 19. Rescuing Choice from Circumstance: The Statecraft of Henry Kissinger (2019) (0)
The Landscape of History: An Interview with John Gaddis (2003) (0)
The Decline of War Enters New Territory (2022) (0)
Toward Developmental Autocracy (2007) (0)
American Policy and the Division of Germany: The Clash with Russia over Reparations. By Bruce Kuklick. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. viii + 286 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $9.50.) (1973) (0)
THE U.S. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION (OWI) AND THE POLISH QUESTION, 1943-1945 (2016) (0)
Transparency of labor conditions for seasonal workers in the California wine industry (2017) (0)
Development over Democracy (2007) (0)
Origins, Evolution, and Nature of the Cold War: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide. By J. L. Black. Foreword by Richard Dean Burns. War/ Peace Bibliography Series, no. 19. Santa Barbara, Calif., and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1986. xxvii, 173 pp. $37.50, cloth. (1986) (0)
Closure to “Discussion of ‘Improved Linearized Velocity Profiles for Turbulent Free Shear Layers’” (1970, ASME J. Appl. Mech., 37, p. 551) (1970) (0)
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947.@@@The Road to Yalta: Soviet Foreign Relations, 1941-1945. (1973) (0)
1 The Long Peace: John Lewis Gaddis (2011) (0)
Containment: Concept and Policy. Volume 2 (1986) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 27 (2014) (0)

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