John Lewis Gaddis Quotes

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

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Country, Order, Goal

  John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.13, Penguin

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• Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  History, Healthy, Process

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• George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  War, Half, Cold

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

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Vision, Starting, Hopes And Fears

  John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.10, Penguin

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• En el primer capítulo expresé mi escepticismo sobre la utilidad de las máquinas del tiempo en la investigación histórica. Especialmente desaconsejé a los estudiantes de posgrado que confiaran en ellas, debido a la perspectiva limitada que se tiende a obtener al ser sumergido en una parte concreta del pasado, y al peligro de no volver a tiempo para los exámenes orales.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Past, Perspective, Historical

  John Lewis Gaddis (2004). “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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