John Lewis Gaddis | |
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_faculty_during_the_Teaching_Grand_Strategy_workshop_at_the_NWC_120816-N-LE393-023_(7796812032)_(cropped).jpg) Gaddis speaking to U.S. Naval War College (NWC) faculty during the Teaching Grand Strategy workshop at the NWC | |
| Born | April 2, 1941 Cotulla, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Military historian, political scientist, writer |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Neorealism |
| Institutions | Ohio University Yale University Naval War College University of Oxford Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert A. Divine |
Main interests | Foreign relations of the United States |
John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.[1] He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy,[1] and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times.[2] Gaddis is also the official biographer of the prominent 20th-century American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan.[3] George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[4]
- ^ a b "Yale Department of History » John Gaddis". history.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ Priscilla Johnson McMillan (25 May 1997). "Cold Warmonger". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Douglas Brinkley (17 February 2004). "Celebrating a Policy Seer And His Cold War Insight". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
Profile of Kennan on his 100th birthday, includes several paragraphs detailing his relationship with Gaddis. - ^ "The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Biography or Autobiography". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2 April 2013.