ABSTRACT
John Lewis Gaddis published We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, a new generation of Cold War historians has revisited and refined its ideas. Although Gaddis confessed in his concluding remarks that the text was unlikely to remain definitive as time went on, he did intend for it to provide readers with the first comprehensive comparative international history of the Cold War. Historians wanted to move away from what they thought were simplistic questions on who started the Cold War in order to explore the event in the broader context of the international history of the twentieth century. In We Now Know, Gaddis wanted to produce the first comparative international history of the Cold War. As Gaddis has acknowledged in a more history of the conflict, young scholars today do not even remember when the Cold War was a phenomenon, rather than a historical one.
