John Lewis Gaddis

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1.		The Cold War: A New History from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.40 Customer Review: The title to the New York Times book review of "The Cold War: A New History" is called "Look Back in Relief" written by Michael Beschloss. That title indeed is what one could say at the end of this rather long odyssey called the Cold War. What Gaddis has done in this rather easy to read and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $13.57 Customer Review: John Lewis Gaddis is probably the foremost historian of the Cold War. Strategies of Containment provides a complete basic overview of the subject of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. It is specifically a history of the U.S.'s containment policy toward the Soviet Union and the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $10.85 Customer Review: In Cretaceous North America a Tyrannosaurus Rex, using his small forelimbs to position a recently killed Apatosaurus, rips apart a piece of flesh with his razor sharp teeth. Was the Tyrannosaurus Rex a true hunter, or nothing more than a scavenger, impeded by his small forelimbs? John Lewis Gaddis's... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations book) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $22.49 Customer Review: This is a loathesome book. It exhibits all the worst characteristics of the triumphalist school of Cold War studies: apologetics for imperialism dressed up as moral seriousness, smug superiority, and a massive scholarly apparatus (unnecessary, since the book's argument is no different from a Ronald... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government) from Harvard University Press Price: $11.60 Customer Review: This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the American foreign policy and grand strategy. Gaddis focuses on three great strategy surprise (the sacking of Washington during the War of 1812, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11) and three men who were forced by these events to redefine American grand... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947 from Columbia University Press Price: $100.50 Customer Review: I didn't read this book, but from the other reviews, I gather that there is no chapter describing the origin of Anti-Communism with Woodrow Wilson. I would have to agree that scholars should look beyond the post WWII period for the origins of the Cold War.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $195.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $34.99	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $35.99 Customer Review: Many historians have taken the viewpoint that the Cold War was a great time of strife and conflict and that we were merely a second away from total war with the Soviet Union. Although there was never any formal war between the Soviet Union and the United States, we nonetheless were in conflict in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past from Oxford University Press, USA Customer Review: Gaddis examines the nature of history and the function of historians through a wide range of metaphors. By putting forth the question: How long is the British coast line? Gaddis immediately sets out that if we measure in miles we won't get to the alcoves and cubbyholes and we'll probably end up with... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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