{"product_id":"on-grand-strategy-9780143132516","title":"On Grand Strategy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in \u003ci\u003eOn Grand Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian\/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. \u003ci\u003eOn Grand Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he's never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, \u003ci\u003eOn Grand Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e is, in every way, a master class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Lewis Gaddis\u003c\/b\u003e is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, and was the founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe United States and the Origins of the Cold War;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStrategies of Containment;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Long Peace;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War: A New History\u003c\/i\u003e. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, biography, and historical methodology. He has won two undergraduate teaching awards at Yale and was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His \u003ci\u003eGeorge F. Kennan: An American Life\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604144427282,"sku":"9780143132516","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54f17b03-b48c-4a3d-ba8c-51efc506f929.jpg?v=1732255619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-grand-strategy-9780143132516","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}