John Lewis Gaddis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Lewis Gaddis

American historian of the Cold War (b.1941)

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1941

Place of Birth: Cotulla, Texas, United States

Profession: historian, biographer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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 he 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.
George F.
Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.