"The United States came out of the 1990s,……" — John Lewis Gaddis
"The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s."
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9 Quotes by John Lewis Gaddis
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It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
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I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against…
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Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
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Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
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Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since…
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift…
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