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An Owl in a Hawk's World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was
everywhere the Cold War was. Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book
Award for Best Biography Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book
Award for Best Biography Against the sprawling backdrop of the Cold
War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's
greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working
diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the American West
to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin, Thompson
became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in
major global events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the
Vietnam War. Yet unlike his contemporaries Robert S. McNamara and
Dean Rusk, who considered Thompson one of the most crucial Cold War
actors 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 and Sherry Thompson skillfully and thoroughly
document his life as an accomplished career diplomat. In vigorous
prose, they describe how Thompson joined the Foreign Service both
to feed his desire for adventure and from a deep sense of duty.
They also detail the crucial role he played as a negotiator
unafraid of compromise. Known in the State Department as "Mr.
Tightlips," Thompson was the epitome of discretion. People from
completely opposite ends of the political spectrum lauded his
approach to diplomacy and claimed him as their own. Refuting
historical misinterpretations of the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian
State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Thompsons tell
their father's fascinating story. With unprecedented access to
Thompson's FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, letters,
diaries, speeches, and documents, and relying on probing interviews
and generous assistance from American and Russian archivists,
historians, and government officials, the authors bring new
material to light, including important information on the U-2,
Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert
operations machinery. This unique and monumental biography not only
restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events
he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary
readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United
StatesRussia relationship that still exists today.
An Owl in a Hawk's World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was
everywhere the Cold War was. Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book
Award for Best Biography Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book
Award for Best Biography Against the sprawling backdrop of the Cold
War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's
greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working
diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the American West
to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin, Thompson
became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in
major global events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the
Vietnam War. Yet unlike his contemporaries Robert S. McNamara and
Dean Rusk, who considered Thompson one of the most crucial Cold War
actors 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 and Sherry Thompson skillfully and thoroughly
document his life as an accomplished career diplomat. In vigorous
prose, they describe how Thompson joined the Foreign Service both
to feed his desire for adventure and from a deep sense of duty.
They also detail the crucial role he played as a negotiator
unafraid of compromise. Known in the State Department as "Mr.
Tightlips," Thompson was the epitome of discretion. People from
completely opposite ends of the political spectrum lauded his
approach to diplomacy and claimed him as their own. Refuting
historical misinterpretations of the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian
State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Thompsons tell
their father's fascinating story. With unprecedented access to
Thompson's FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, letters,
diaries, speeches, and documents, and relying on probing interviews
and generous assistance from American and Russian archivists,
historians, and government officials, the authors bring new
material to light, including important information on the U-2,
Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert
operations machinery. This unique and monumental biography not only
restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events
he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary
readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United
StatesRussia relationship that still exists today.
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