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John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy,〔 and has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by ''The New York Times''. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan.〔 Profile of Kennan on his 100th birthday, includes several paragraphs detailing his relationship with Gaddis.〕 ''George F. Kennan: An American Life'' (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. == Biography == Gaddis was born in Cotulla, Texas, in 1941. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his BA in 1963, MA in 1965, and PhD in 1968, the latter under the direction of Robert Divine. Gaddis then taught briefly at Indiana University Southeast, before joining Ohio University in 1969.〔 At Ohio, he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute, and was named a distinguished professor in 1983.〔 In the 1975–77 academic years, Gaddis was a Visiting Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College. In the 1992–93 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford. He has also held visiting positions at Princeton University and the University of Helsinki. He served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1992. In 1997, he moved to Yale University to become the Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History. In the 2000–01 academic year, Gaddis was the George Eastman Professor at Oxford, the second scholar (after Robin Winks) to have the honor of being both Eastman and Harmsworth professor. In 2005, he received the National Humanities Medal. He sits on the advisory committee of the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project, which he helped establish in 1991.〔 Gaddis is also known for his close relationship with the late George Kennan and his wife, whom Gaddis described as "my companions".〔.〕 He was also fairly close to President George W. Bush, making suggestions to his speech writers,〔. criticizes Gaddis for holding a "relatively positive assessment" of post-9/11 Bush foreign policy.〕 and has been described as an "overt admirer" of the 43rd President. After leaving office, Bush took up painting as a hobby at Gaddis's recommendation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Lewis Gaddis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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