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04913aam a2200577 i 4500 001 76B992F2840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171002s2018 mdua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017017066 020 $a 1421424541 020 $a 9781421424545 020 $a 1421424096 020 $a 9781421424095 035 $a (OCoLC)1005760137 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a E748.T518 $b T56 2018 082 00 $a 327.7304709/04 $2 23 100 1 $a Thompson, Jenny, $d 1954- $e author. 245 14 $a The Kremlinologist : $b Llewellyn E Thompson : America's man in Cold War Moscow / $c Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 587 pages ; $c 26 cm. 490 0 $a Johns Hopkins nuclear history and contemporary affairs 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 600 10 $a Thompson, Llewellyn, $d 1904-1972. 600 17 $a Thompson, Llewellyn, $d 1904-1972. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01517900 611 27 $a Cold War (1945-1989) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754978 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1945-1989. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Ambassadors $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations $z United States. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Diplomatic history. 650 0 $a Diplomats $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a World politics $y 1945-1989. 650 7 $a Ambassadors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806713 650 7 $a Diplomacy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894188 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Diplomats. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894415 650 7 $a World politics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181381 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1945-1989 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 700 1 $a Thompson, Sherry, $d 1949- $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018012050.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76B992F2840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search