John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis | |
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Gaddis speaking to U.S. Naval War College (NWC) faculty during the Teaching Grand Strategy workshop | |
| Born | April 2, 1941 Cotulla, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Cold War historian, political scientist, writer |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert A. Divine |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Neorealism |
| Institutions | Ohio University Yale University Naval War College University of Oxford Princeton University |
| Main interests | Foreign relations of the United States |
John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American Cold War historian, political scientist, and writer. He 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 he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the prominent 20th-century American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.