On Grand Strategy
BOOK SUMMARY
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades.
John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, reflects on what he has learned from teaching grand strategy for nearly two decades. Moving from the ancient world through World War II, he examines leaders, thinkers, and strategists including Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin, applying sharp insight and wit to the enduring art of leadership.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University and founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. His previous books include The Cold War: A New History, Strategies of Containment, The Landscape of History, and George F. Kennan: An American Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He has received multiple teaching awards at Yale and the National Humanities Medal.
PRAISE
“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A remarkably erudite volume that renders nuanced verdicts on an eclectic cohort of thinkers and leaders.”
—The Washington Post
“An eminently readable book by a master historian…brilliant, learned, and seductively written.”
—The New Criterion
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Trade paperback
384 pages
Non-fiction
7.9 in H | 5.2 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.6 lb
