John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis, with Laura and George W. Bush , at the National Humanities Medal ceremony on November 10, 2005 at the White House

John Lewis Gaddis (* 1941 in Cotulla , Texas ) is an American historian .

Life

John Lewis Gaddis grew up in Cotulla, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1962 , his master 's degree in 1965 and his doctorate in 1968 . He then briefly taught at Indiana University Southeast before moving to Ohio University in 1969 , where he was appointed professor in 1983 and headed the Contemporary History Institute he founded. During this time he was visiting professor at universities such as Helsinki University , Naval War College and the University of Oxford , where he was Harmsworth Professor of American History from 1992 to 1993 . He has been at Yale University since 1997 , where he became Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History . From 2001 to 2002 he was George Eastman Professor at Oxford, making him only the second historian after Robin Winks to hold both the Hamsworth and Eastman professorships.

Gaddis is considered an expert on the Cold War . He dealt with containment policy and other aspects of the history of diplomacy in the United States. Among other things, he takes the view that Joseph Stalin's personality was one of the main causes of the Cold War. He has published several books and received an American History Book Prize , the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his 2011 biography George F. Kennan: An American Life about the life of the historian and diplomat George F. Kennan awarded for the best biography . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and is an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

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• The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972)
• Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History (1978)
• Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982)
• The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987)
• The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reconsideration, Implications, Provocations (1992)
• Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 10 (1996)
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002)
• Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004)
• The Cold War: A New History (2005)
  • The Cold War: A New Story , Sieder Verlag 2007, 384 pages, ISBN 978-3-88680-864-9 .
• Ending Tyranny: The past and future of an idea
• The American Interest (2008)
• George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011)

Web links

• John Lewis Gaddis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about John Lewis Gaddis in the catalog of the German National Library