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John Lewis Gaddis
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican historian of the Cold War (b.1941)
John Lewis Gaddis is an American Cold War historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.
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No one can be certain where or when the next great earthquake will occur.
"History, Theory, and Common Ground", International Security, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Summer, 1997)
Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002)
The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet.
The Cold War: A New History (2005)
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John Lewis Gaddis is an American Cold War 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 prominent 20th-century American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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