We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the Cold War using newly available archival evidence from the former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. John Lewis Gaddis analyzes the ideological, political, and strategic forces shaping the global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book re-examines major events—including the …
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 is a seminal historical study by John Lewis Gaddis, examining the political, diplomatic, and strategic roots of the early Cold War. Drawing on American, Soviet, and British archives, Gaddis analyzes how wartime alliances transformed into geopolitical rivalry. The book explores key decisions by Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin, and other po…
Contents: 1. The return of fear 2. Deathboats and lifeboats 3. Command versus spontaneity 4. The emergence of autonomy etc.
Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan's death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breath…