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The Long Peace, by John Lewis Gaddis

- Abstract

In the spectrum of historians writing about the cold war, John Lewis Gaddis belongs in the category of post-revisionists.



About the Author

Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale, is the author of Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, and, most recently, The Peloponnesian War (2003), drawn from his earlier four-volume history of that conflict. Mr. Kagan served as dean of Yale College from 1989 to 1992.