The Kremlinologist Llewellyn E Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow / Sherry Thompson and Jenny Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Sherry, 1949- author.

Thompson, Jenny, 1954- author.

Series:

Johns Hopkins nuclear history and contemporary affairs.

Johns Hopkins nuclear history and contemporary affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Diplomats--United States--Biography.

Diplomats.

Cold War--Diplomatic history.

Cold War.

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Thompson, Llewellyn, 1904-1972.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Expectations & education

Beginning

Into the world

To Moscow

The siege of Moscow

The Germans in retreat

Conferences

The hot war ends and the Cold War begins

Truman Doctrine

Birth of covert operations

Overseas again

Negotiations

Chief of mission

Trieste negotiations

Austrian State Treaty Negotiations

Open skies closed borders

Diplomacy

Khrushchev's decade 1953-64

Moscow 2

Khrushchev's first gamble: berlin poker

Dueling exhibitions

The Russian is coming

U-2: the end of detente

Picking up the pieces

Working for the new President

Meeting in Vienna

22nd Party Congress

Up the down escalator

Goodbye Moscow hello Washington

Thirteen days in October

The Limited Test Ban

Policy

The Johnson years

Strand one: Vietnam

Thompson's Vietnam (1963-1967)

Strand two: Nonproliferation (1963-1967)

Strand three: The road to SALT (1963-1967)

Moscow 3

The Six Day War: hotline diplomacy

Glassboro: The summit that wasn't (June 23-25)

1968: Year of frustrated promise

"Retirement" so to speak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-2410-X

OCLC:

1027904391