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John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan.
Preface | p. ix |
Childhood: 1904-1921 | p. 3 |
Princeton: 1921-1925 | p. 23 |
The Foreign Service: 1925-1931 | p. 39 |
Marriage-and Moscow: 1931-1933 | p. 60 |
The Origins of Soviet-American Relations: 1933-1936 | p. 79 |
Rediscovering America: 1936-1938 | p. 99 |
Czechoslovakia and Germany: 1938-1941 | p. 120 |
The United States at War: 1941-1944 | p. 147 |
Back in the U.S.S.R.: 1944-1945 | p. 172 |
A Very Long Telegram: 1945-1946 | p. 201 |
A Grand Strategic Education: 1946 | p. 225 |
Mr. X: 1947 | p. 249 |
Policy Planner: 1947-1948 | p. 276 |
Policy Dissenter: 1948 | p. 309 |
Reprieve: 1949 | p. 337 |
Disengagement: 1950 | p. 371 |
Public Figure, Private Doubts: 1950-1951 | p. 407 |
Mr. Ambassador: 1952 | p. 439 |
Finding a Niche: 1953-1955 | p. 477 |
A Rare Possibility of Usefulness: 1955-1958 | p. 506 |
Kennedy and Yugoslavia: 1958-1963 | p. 538 |
Counter-Cultural Critic: 1963-1968 | p. 577 |
Prophet of the Apocalypse: 1968-1980 | p. 613 |
A Precarious Vindication: 1980-1990 | p. 647 |
Last Things: 1991-2005 | p. 676 |
Epilogue: Greatness | p. 693 |
Acknowledgments | p. 699 |
Abbreviations to Notes and Bibliography | p. 701 |
Notes | p. 703 |
Bibliography | p. 751 |
Index | p. 763 |
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