Author

Books by John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is a professor of military and naval history at Yale University and the foremost American historian of the Cold War. He is the author of The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, Strategies of Containment, The Long Peace, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography George F. Kennan: An American Life. He served as an official historian for the United States Strategic Bombing Survey and has advised multiple administrations on national security history. His work is notable for its synthesis of archival research with accessible, argument-driven prose.