Jack Matlock
Autore di Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Sull'Autore
First posted to Moscow in 1961, career diplomat Jack F. Matlock, Jr., was America's man on the scene for most of the Cold War. A scholar of Russian history and culture, Matlock was President Reagan's choice for the crucial post of ambassador to the Soviet Union
Fonte dell'immagine: Eye on Books
Opere di Jack Matlock
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Matlock, Jack Foust, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1929-10-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Istruzione
- Duke University
Columbia University (MA) - Attività lavorative
- diplomat
United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1981-1983)
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987-1991)
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for European and Soviet Affairs (1983-1986) - Organizzazioni
- United States Department of State
Ronald Reagan administration (1981-1989)
George H. W. Bush administration (1989-1991) - Agente
- Fifi Oscard
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 188
- Popolarità
- #115,783
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 3
While the book necessarily deals more with the happenings and opinions of the US side of the relationship, Matlock does incorporate much information from the Soviet archives and from interviews that he conducted with key Soviet participants to piece together the corresponding Soviet part of the story. So we get a very good idea of the thinking of the leadership in both countries about what they wanted from the other, what they thought of the other's leaders, and what motivated them to do what they did.
The story that Matlock tells about this relationship is largely one of a situation when the right people came along at the right time to bring a halt to the most dangerous international relationship the world has ever seen: the decades-long, smoldering hostility that existed between two countries with nuclear arsenals large enough to destroy the world many times over. What Matlock describes is a situation in which two men motivated by somewhat different things were able to channel those motivations into the same goal: ending the Cold War.… (altro)