On Grand Strategy

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May 7, 2018 On Grand Strategy

John Lewis Gaddis, distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned.

Monday, May 7, 2018

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC
20002

Featured Author

John Lewis Gaddis

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 Long Peace;" "We Now Know;" "The Landscape of History;" "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience;" and "The Cold War: A New History." Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, biography, and historical methodology. He has won two undergraduate teaching awards at Yale and was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for "George F. Kennan: An American Life."

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John Lewis Gaddis, distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before. On Grand Strategy offers a master class for anyone interested in the art of leadership.