John Lewis Gaddis has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now he reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned. Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, Saint Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Roosevelt and many more. A book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass.