Books by John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis 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 has been hailed as the “Dean of Cold War Historians” by The New York Times.
George F. Kennan: An American Life
by John Lewis Gaddis
🏆 Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
🏆 Winner of the 2011 NBCC Prize for Biography
This masterful biography of the 'mastermind of the Cold War' by the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis offers a deeply reported study of one of the United States' most influential architects of foreign policy. Kennan was reportedly so forthcoming and outspoken in interviews that he and the author agreed that it would not be published until after his death. Writing in The New York Times, Henry Kissinger declared it "as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging and exasperating American public servants"
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
by John Lewis Gaddis
This is a great book by one of the great Cold War historians of the United States. He has a simple but very compelling argument about when you look at the American experience, which is that you can only understand American grand strategy in diplomatic history by looking at how it reacts to shock and events.
Interviews with John Lewis Gaddis
Books on the History of International Relations, recommended by John Lewis Gaddis
Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis points to research showing that, contrary to widespread belief, Mao was regularly briefed on the famine he had caused
Interviews where books by John Lewis Gaddis were recommended
The best books on The Rise and Fall of America, recommended by Patrick Porter
From the Cold War to the post-9/11 world, Professor Patrick Porter looks at America’s destiny and international function. Grappling with geopolitical questions, he looks at whether America’s flirtations with empire can be reconciled with republican ideals.
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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King: A Life
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
