Gaddis

• The same Kissinger who calls Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life "as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging, and exasperating American public servants" once asked Gaddis to write his own biography.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

• The same Kissinger who calls Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life "as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging, and exasperating American public servants" once asked Gaddis to write his own biography.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Bacchides Was coming upon him, he sent his brother John, who was also called Gaddis, to the Nabatean Arabs, that he might lodge his baggage with them until the battle with Bacchides should be over, for they were the Jews 'friends.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

He had five sons; John, who was called Gaddis, and Simon, who was called Matthes, and Judas, who was called Maccabeus, [19] and Eleazar, who was called

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Full disclosure: Mr. Gaddis and I were colleagues at Ohio University for a quarter-century before his departure for Yale in 1996.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

Mr. Gaddis, an eminent historian of U.S. foreign relations, had happily reached an agreement with Kennan, in 1981, to write his authorized biography—and little wonder.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

"Poor John Gaddis has seen his undertaking being put off for years while he waits for me to make way for it," George Kennan told his diary in February 2003.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

Frustration, Mr. Gaddis remarks, had become Kennan's normal state.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

He had become a cultural European who preferred bicycles to automobiles, disdained the materialism of the masses and, as Mr. Gaddis puts it, saw "an America devoid of leadership, riddled with corruption, engulfed in pollution, beset with boredom and pervaded by such loneliness that the entire country seemed populated by refugees from Edward Hopper paintings."

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

The terms of the agreement were generous: Mr. Gaddis was given full access to Kennan's personal papers, the facilitation of interviews with family members and associates, and no review of the manuscript.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011