2025-11-20
1 小时 7 分钟The New York Times calls him the Dean of Cold War Historians.
John Lewis Gaddis,
one of the most accomplished and revered professors of history in the country on Uncommon Knowledge,
now.
Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.
On the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, I'm Peter Robinson.
A native of the little town of Catulla, Texas, and will return to Catulla,
John Lewis Gaddis became one of the most accomplished historians in the country,
the man the New York Times called the Dean of Cold War Historians.
Professor Gaddis received his BA, MA, and Doctorate, all from the University of Texas.
He has taught since 1997 here at Yale,
where he serves as the Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History.
Professor Gaddis' many books, this is only a partial stack,
include Strategies of Containment, published in 1982, The Cold War, A New History,
published in 2005, the Pulitzer Prize-winning George Kennan and American Life,
published in 2011, and On Grand Strategy, which appeared in 2018.
Professor John Lewis Gaddis, thank you for joining us.
Yes sir, it's a pleasure to be here.
I can't have the Dean of Cold War Historians seated across from me and not ask him to take me through that conflict.
Now, this is a filmed conversation.