Jack Matlock
Auteur van Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Over de Auteur
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
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- Matlock, Jack Foust, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1929-10-01
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- male
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- USA
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- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Opleiding
- Duke University
Columbia University (MA) - Beroepen
- 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) - Organisaties
- United States Department of State
Ronald Reagan administration (1981-1989)
George H. W. Bush administration (1989-1991) - Agent
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- 3
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- 191
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- #114,255
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- 4.1
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- 1
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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.… (meer)