“ An atmosphere of lies and distortions, in other words, of which the very essence is the unceasing effort to induce people to abandon the evidence of their senses and of all objective criteria and to a… John Lewis Gaddis
“ The Greeks thought of culture as character. It was predictability across scale: the behavior of a city, a state, or a people in small things, big things, and those in between. 32 Knowing who they were… John Lewis Gaddis
“ [I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities, one Soviet official explained in 1973. John Lewis Gaddis
“ Which somehow made it appropriate that The Federalist’s hardest task—showing how a republic could be an empire without becoming a tyranny—fell to Madison, the most easily underestimated of the America… John Lewis Gaddis
“ Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to build an extraordinarily powerful st… John Lewis Gaddis
“ One day I asked what connection Prince Andrei, Natasha, and the bumbling Pierre could possibly have to their very different lives? There was, as at Newport, a moment of silence. Then three students si… John Lewis Gaddis
“ His first decision was to return to Rome without knowing who was in charge or how he’d be received. The stakes skyrocketed when he learned, after landing near Brundisium, that Caesar’s will had made h… John Lewis Gaddis
“ Despite having built his own movement with little help from Moscow, the new Chinese leader was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who was more than ready to defer to Stalin as the head of the international… John Lewis Gaddis
“ But what if Clausewitz and Tolstoy were wrestling with contradictions—perhaps even relishing the contest—rather than agonizing over them? 13 Both see determinism as laws to which there can be no excep… John Lewis Gaddis
“ They went from regarding these compromises as regrettable to considering them necessary, then normal, then even desirable. John Lewis Gaddis
