“But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“It’s not a very nice solution,” Kennedy acknowledged, “but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”54 The president could… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Stalin’s first move, uncharacteristically, was to apologize to the Chinese comrades for having underestimated them: “Our opinions are not always correct,” he told a… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to build an… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.” — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer, you dominate… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“His months of teaching experience were now a lost age of youth and innocence. He could no longer sit in his office at Fort… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
