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We bravely advance into the future with our eyes fixed firmly on the past...

John Lewis Gaddis

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

John Lewis Gaddis

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

John Lewis Gaddis

We're bound to learn from the past whether or not we make the effort, since it's the only data base we have...

John Lewis Gaddis

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis

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Born: April 2, 1941 (age 77)

Bio: John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times.

Known for:

The Cold War: A New History (2005)
We now know (1997)
Strategies of containment (1982)
The Landscape of History (2002)

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