On Grand Strategy

John 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 on grand strategy Gaddis reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world to the second World War Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus Thucydides sun Tzu Octavian/Augustus saint Augustine Machiavelli Elizabeth I Philip II the American founding fathers Clausewitz Tolstoy Lincoln Wilson Franklin D Roosevelt and Isaiah Berlin. For anyone involved or interested in the art of leadership on grand strategy is in every way a master Class.