Lewis Gaddis Quotes

#1. As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

Margaret MacMillan

#2. John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Noam Chomsky

#3. John Lewis Gaddis had come to visit shortly before the election and over lunch said something that resonated with me. "Never forget how really dependent the world is on America. And they know it.

Condoleezza Rice

#4. Historians must not confuse the passage of time with the accumulation of intelligence," John Lewis Gaddis has cautioned.

Douglas Boin

#5. It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

John Lewis Gaddis