The Cold War

A fresh and admirably concise history … Gaddis’s mastery of the material, his fluent style and eye for the telling anecdote make his new work a pleasure. (“The Economist”)Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject. (“The New York Times”)Outstanding … The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written. (“The Boston Globe”)

John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called ‘the dean of Cold War historians’ by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary Cold War. He is also the author of numerous books, including The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972), Strategies of Containment- A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982), We Now Know- Rethinking Cold War History (1997), The Landscape of History (2002) and Surprise, Security and the American Experience (2004). He is a 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.