On Grand Strategy

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John Lewis Gaddis, a leading historian of the Cold War, shares insights gained from nearly two decades of co-teaching grand strategy at Yale University with Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. In On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on his experiences, assessing grand strategic theory and practice through examinations of historical figures including Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, Saint Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American founding fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin, spanning from the ancient world to the Second World War. This book is a master class for anyone involved in or interested in the art of leadership.

About the Author

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University and was the founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War. The New York Times calls him ‘the dean of Cold War historians’. He has won two undergraduate teaching awards at Yale and was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His George F. Kennan: An American Life won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

9780141987224 ISBN
International Relations & Globalization
Politics