John Lewis Gaddis

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1. John Lewis Gaddis

   Author of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

3. Niall Ferguson

   Author of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Pity of War

4. Antony Beevor

   Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

5. Henry Kissinger

   Author of Diplomacy, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

6. Richard J. Evans

   Author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, In Defence of History

7. David Halberstam

   Author of The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

8. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, The Purpose of the Past

9. Max Boot

   Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today

10. Eric Foner

    Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

11. Edward Hallett Carr

    Author of What Is History?, Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

12. James T. Patterson

    Author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore

13. Samuel P. Huntington

    Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)

14. Joyce Appleby

    Author of Telling the Truth About History, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

15. Tony Judt

    Author of Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

16. George F. Kennan

    Author of American Diplomacy, Memoirs 1925-1950, Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1

17. Ian Kershaw

    Author of Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

18. Kenneth N. Waltz

    Author of Man, the State, and War, Theory of International Politics

19. Max Hastings

    Author of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

20. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers