GADDIS, John Lewis.
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.
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First Edition of Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; Inscribed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian John Lewis Gaddis in the Year of Publication
First edition of the eminent Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis's incisive meditation on surprise attack, security, and American grand strategy, written in the shadow of September 11. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Mark Toomey, with best wishes, John Gaddis, 4/14/04." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jill Breitbarth.
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience grew out of the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures that John Lewis Gaddis delivered at the New York Public Library, and it appeared in 2004 as the United States was remaking its foreign policy in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001. In it Gaddis places the era's controversial doctrines of preemption and unilateral action within the long sweep of American history, tracing them back through the responses to Pearl Harbor and to the burning of Washington in 1814, and arguing that surprise attack has repeatedly driven the United States to expand its conception of security. John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, is widely regarded as the dean of Cold War historians and is the author of The Cold War: A New History, We Now Know, and Strategies of Containment. In 2012 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for George F. Kennan: An American Life, the culmination of three decades of work on the architect of the containment doctrine.
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience.
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