< cite > Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples </ cite >, 1996, A. A. Gaddis, Cairo, Dr M. Swales,

Gaddis's influence is vast ( although frequently subterranean ): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis ( indeed, upon publication of V., Pynchon was actually speculated to have been a pen name for Gaddis due to the similarity of styles and the dearth of information about the two authors ; the Wanda Tinasky letters also claimed that Gaddis, Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person ), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular.

Among those in attendance were Secretary of State Colin Powell, international relations theorist John Mearsheimer, journalist Chris Hedges, former ambassador and career Foreign Service officer Jack F. Matlock, Jr., and Kennan's biographer, John Lewis Gaddis.

* Siliotti, A., < cite > Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples </ cite > 1996, A. A. Gaddis, Cairo.

* Richard Price and Michael Gaddis, trans., Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol.

Latterly, a third school known as " neo-orthodox " whose most prominent member is the American historian John Lewis Gaddis has emerged, which holds through the United States borne some responsibity for the Cold War, the lion's share of the responsibility goes to the Soviet Union.

Gaddis is one of the first and most important American postmodern writers.

Gaddis died at home in East Hampton, New York, of prostate cancer on December 16, 1998, but not before creating his final work, Agapē Agape ( the first word of the title is the Greek agapē, meaning divine, unconditional love ), which was published in 2002, a novella in the form of the last words of a character similar but not identical to his creator.

Among fans of post-modern fiction, Gaddis is often acknowledged as being one of the greatest of American post-war novelists.

A critic who early on appreciated his work and recognized its value is Steven Moore: in 1982 he published A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's " The Recognitions " and in 1989 a monograph on Gaddis in the Twayne series.

John Lewis Gaddis ( born 1941 in Cotulla, Texas, U. S .) is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the " Dean of Cold War Historians " by The New York Times.

Gaddis is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by United States presidents from Harry S. Truman to Ronald Reagan, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War.

Trilby is referenced several times in William Gaddis ' novel, JR, wherein Edward Bast the protagonist becomes a mirror of Little Billee, a prominent artist in Trilby.

Its current incumbent is John Lewis Gaddis, the noted historian of the Cold War.

He is now also the Director of International Security Studies and along with John Lewis Gaddis and Charles Hill, teaches the Studies in Grand Strategy course there.

Flossie Gaddis is one of the Nolans ' neighbors, a single woman who scares men away as she constantly looks for new relationships.

The practice of writing ‘ Singh ’ as their surname is not common among Rajput Gaddis.

The majority of the population of Gaddis is found in Bani, Basholi, Billowar and Hiranagar Tehsils of Kathua District of J & K.

The Gaddis are not fully nomadic, since they have homes in villages, but transhumance is a traditional practice: they generally travel with their flocks to higher pastures in the summer.

McElroy's writing is often grouped with that of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, due to the encyclopedic quality of his novels, particularly the 1, 192 pages of Women and Men ( 1987 ).

In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

After determining a crteria for inductees, Bill Dick Parker, Joel Dorsey, and Neal Henigan were chosen as the 1963 indutees, In the preceding years, the following former athletes from Hallsville have been inducted into the Hall of Fame: 1964, Ross " Larry " Parker, Perry " Peck " Bunt, Barney Oliver ; 1965, Clayton " Shag " Coon, Hulon Blalock, Edd Young ; 1966, Clyde Kinsy, Murray Know, Brad Horner ; 1967, Dick Hays ; 1968, James Greer ; 1969, Votto Gaddis, Ed Ferges, Corky Ford ; 1970.

Gaddis puts forward the theory that an undetected smoldering fire or malfunction in the ship's boiler system might have been responsible for the shipwreck.

His books are also known for their extensive use of literary and cultural allusions, some of which are annotated in the The Gaddis Annotations.

Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked " on Wall Street and in politics ", and Edith Gaddis, an executive for the New York Steam Corporation.

Authors clearly influenced by Gaddis include Jonathan Franzen ( The Corrections ), David Markson ( Epitaph for a Tramp ), Joseph McElroy ( A Smuggler's Bible ) and Stanley Elkin ( The Magic Kingdom ).

Beside the awards for particular works, Gaddis has received three other awards and honors:

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.

Novelists who are commonly counted to postmodern literature include Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, William Burroughs, Giannina Braschi, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, E. L. Doctorow, Jerzy Kosinski, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Ana Lydia Vega, and Paul Auster.

) Shortly after the publication of The Recognitions, Gaddis married his first wife, Patricia Black, who would give birth to two children: Sarah ( who has written a novel, Swallow Hard, inspired by her relationship with her father ) and Matthew.

Jonathan Franzen, who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis " an old literary hero of mine ", dubbed him ' Mr. Difficult ', stating that " by a comfortable margin, the most difficult book I ever voluntarily read in its entirety was Gaddis ' nine-hundred-and-fifty-six-page first novel, The Recognitions.

According to Gaddis, Stalin was in a much better position to compromise than his Western counterparts, given his much broader power within his own regime than Truman, who had to contend with Congress and was often undermined by vociferous political opposition at home.

The Cleveland School, except for the special education portion, was torn down to make room for 1973's newest addition, the Gail T. Gaddis Building ( named for a 25-year teacher who retired that year ).

Thomas E. Gaddis ( September 14, 1908-October 10, 1984 ) was a United States author, most noted for his book about Robert Stroud, who was known as the " Birdman of Alcatraz ".

Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved ( 1975 ) argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable.

* Gaddis, John Lewis Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004.

* The William Gaddis papers at Washington University in St. Louis

Raised in Cotulla, Texas, Gaddis attended the University of Texas at Austin ,.

* Katharine Tynan ( 1974, Bucknell University Press ) Marilyn Gaddis Rose

* E. Safer, The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey, Detroit: Wayne State University Press ( 1988 ).

* John Lewis Gaddis, " George F. Kennan: An American Life " ( New York, New York: Penguin Press, 2011 ).