Hannah Sheehy

“These things did not happen simply because Reagan gave a speech or because Orwell wrote a book: the remainder of this book complicates the causation. It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

“Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

“I was stained by failure.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“Stalin fell into the trap the Marshall Plan laid for him, which was to get him to build the wall that would divide Europe.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History