On Grand Strategy On Grand Strategy

On Grand Strategy

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Publisher Description

“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.”—The Wall Street Journal

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades


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 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.  On Grand Strategy 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, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2018
April 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.7
MB

Customer Reviews

JordanDavidX ,

Excellent

First book I’ve read in years and it was both tremendously insightful and surprisingly easy to read. Sometimes the author’s love for history seems to bring him down tangents not relevant to the themes of the book, but perhaps I’m just not able to extrapolate the relevant meaning. Regardless, this is a book any American should read to understand their own history, and a book any ambitious person should read to understand their own strategies.

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