John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American military 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.
Books in order of publication:
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 1987.
Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States: An Interpretive History. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 1990
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations and Provocations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 1992.
(Co-editor with Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May and Jonathan Rosenberg). Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999.
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2000
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2002.
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2004
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2005
The Cold War: A New History. New York, NY: The Penguin Press. 2005
George F. Kennan: An American Life. New York, NY: The Penguin Press. 2011
On Grand Strategy. New York, New York: The Penguin Press. 2018
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