The Cold War: A New History

John Lewis Gaddis is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th... century statesman George F. Kennan, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2012. Raised in Cotulla, Texas, Gaddis attended the University of Texas at Austin,. He received his B.A. in 1963, his M.A. in 1965, and his Ph.D. in 1968, under the direction of Robert Divine. He taught briefly at Indiana University Southeast before joining Ohio University in 1969. At Ohio, he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute and was named a distinguished professor in 1983. In the 1975-1977 academic years, Gaddis was a Visiting Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College. In the 1992-1993 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He has held visiting positions at the Naval War College, Princeton University, and the University of Helsinki.
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