{"product_id":"on-grand-strategy","title":"On Grand Strategy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A training manual for our troubled times ... It  makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted  pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty,  choice and a moral compass, that warns against hubris'' Roger Boyes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War,   has for almost two decades co-taught the grand strategy seminar at  Yale  University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now,  in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn   chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis   assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides,   Sun Tzu, Octavian\/Augustus, Saint Augustine, Machiavelli,Elizabeth I,   Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy,Lincoln,   Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''For the past 16 years Gaddis has taught a course on grand strategy to   students at Yale University. Reading his book, you wish every  university  could offer it. Gaddis roves across the centuries, offering  advice on  subjects from statecraft and warfare to leading a worthwhile  life''  Phillip Delves Broughton,\u003ci\u003e Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319400931710,"sku":"NW9780141987224","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141987224.jpg?v=1778690888","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/on-grand-strategy","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}