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 D. Roosevelt. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share
“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.” — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share
“This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share
