![]() ![]() He followed it up with Russia, the Soviet Union, the United States: An Interpretive History, which traced the relationship between the two powers from Catherine the Great through Mikhail Gorbachev. Gaddis used the first release of documents from the early years of the conflict to write what he calls "the first draft of history." The resulting book, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, won the Bancroft Prize. "I started working on the Cold War when the Cold War was still very much current events," he says. ![]() Interested in the intersection between current events and history-and the process by which current events becomes history-Gaddis gravitated toward diplomatic history early on. Over the past for decades, John Lewis Gaddis has made a name for himself in academic and policy circles for his incisive examination of the Cold War. ![]()
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