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Thompson, Kenneth Winfred was born on August 29, 1921 in Des Moines. Son of Thor Carlyle and Agnes (Rorbeck) Thompson.
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Co-published with the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Clay, Calhoun, and Webster, Merill D. Peterson; John Sherman and James G. Blaine: Two Who Failed, Ari Hoogenboom; William Jennings Bryan: The Voice and Hope of the People, David D. Anderson; Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Kenneth W. Thompson; Senator Estes Kefauver, Charles L. Fontenay; Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia, Gilbert C. Fite; General of the Army George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman, Ed Cray; The Candidacy That Never Was: Owen D. Young and the Presidential Election of 1932, Stephen A. Schuker; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson.
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Hardback book with dust jacket titled COLD WAR THEORIES, Volume 1 by Kenneth W. Thompson (1981) See my photographs (2) of this book on main listing page. (LL-5-bottom-up-L)
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^RExamines moral and political discourse manifest in Theory and Practice in International Relations, an original monograph by Kenneth W. Thompson. The book is a study of moral reasoning approached first at the level of theory and examined thereafter in a series of foreign policy case studies including human rights and Soviet-American relations. Chapters deal with the use and abuse of norms, words and deeds in foreign policy and vision and reality in international politics.
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Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: 'Why do great men never become president?' The book examines the political and and personal lives of nine statesmen who were never elected president. Part I spotlights William Gibbs McAdoo and James G. Blaine, statesmen during the Progressive Era. The next section examines statesmen during the modern presidency including Robert Taft, Senator Mike Mansfield, and J. William Fullbright. Part III focuses on those statesmen who worked for social welfare concerns: Morris Udall, Senator Edmund Muskie, and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some may have been more qualified to be senator or lacked the ambition to pursue the presidential office, while others suffered from questionable judgment or fell prey to illness or political attacks. The volume pulls together insights from earlier studies as well as original testimony of intimates and scholars at the Miller Center, seeking to look comparatively at these findings about selected statesmen.
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This book is the result of a study made by developing country educators for twelve national and international agencies, directed and coordinated by the International Council for Educational Development (ICED). It includes an overall report, three regional reports, and summaries of twenty five case studies.
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In Fathers of International Thought, renowned foreight affairs scholar Kenneth W. Thompson returns to the writings of sixteen pre-twentieth-century thinkers in order to better understand the issues and problems that recurrently beset global politics.
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In this examination of the Cold War, Kenneth W. Thompson offers a broad yet specific account of its history and its historians. Thompson's aim is to find the best framework for understanding how the Cold War originated, what forces and factors produced it, how Soviet and American policies intensified the conflict, and what alternatives were open to the rivals. He evenhandedly sets forth three competing theories of the Cold War--the orthodox, revisionist, and critical/interpretative views--and reveals how the ideological confines of certain interpretations have made for limited understanding and sometimes mistaken responses. Thompson shows that especially orthodox and revisionist historians are misled by their exaggerated estimates of intentions, interests, and national capacity. The book follows the course of the Cold War from the end of World War II and American demobilization through the war in Korea. Tracing the influence of theories on policy makers, Thompson finds missed opportunities and unintentional acts of belligerence in recurrent periods of tension, as in the debates over Poland, Iran, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Berlin Blockade. Yet compared with later periods in the Cold War, the author contends, this was a golden age in American foreign policy.
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This volume delves into Mr. Churchill's approach to arms control and foreign policy. The initial section, 'The Quest for a Coherent Framework,' explores Churchill's philosophical basis for dealing with other powers. Subsequent chapters deal with issues involving his government agencies' conduct of foreign policy, with problems of policy decision-making in a democratic society, and with Churchill's disarmament legacy to the United Kingdom and the world.
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(Co-published with the Miller Center for Public Affairs. C...)
Co-published with the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Clay, Calhoun, and Webster, Merill D. Peterson; John Sherman and James G. Blaine: Two Who Failed, Ari Hoogenboom; William Jennings Bryan: The Voice and Hope of the People, David D. Anderson; Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Kenneth W. Thompson; Senator Estes Kefauver, Charles L. Fontenay; Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia, Gilbert C. Fite; General of the Army George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman, Ed Cray; The Candidacy That Never Was: Owen D. Young and the Presidential Election of 1932, Stephen A. Schuker; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson.
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Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981, As new., Fine in dust jacket. 219 pages. Bright, clean, tight. Presidency, Government, American History Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications.
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Thompson, Kenneth Winfred was born on August 29, 1921 in Des Moines. Son of Thor Carlyle and Agnes (Rorbeck) Thompson.
AB, Augustana College, 1943. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Augustana College, 1986. Doctor of Laws, Augustana College, 1986.
Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1950. Doctor of Laws, University Notre Dame, Indiana, 1964.
Doctor of Laws, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1972. Doctor of Laws, St. Michael's College, 1973. Doctor of Laws, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1974.
Doctor of Laws, University Denver, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters, West Virginia Wesleyan University, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters, Nebraska Wesleyan College, 1971.
Lecturer social science, University of Chicago, 1948;
assistant professor political science, University of Chicago, 1951-1953;
from assistant professor to associate professor political science, Northwestern University, 1949-1955;
chairman international relations committee, Northwestern University, 1951-1955;
assistant director social scis, Rockefeller Foundation, 1955-1957;
from associate director social science to vice president, Rockefeller Foundation, 1957-1973;
director higher education for development, International Council for Ednl. Development, 1974-1976;
Commonwealth professor government and foreign affairs, University of Virginia, 1975-1978;
White Burkett Miller professor government and foreign affairs, University of Virginia, 1979-1986;
J. Wilson Newman professor government and foreign affairs, since 1986;
director, White Burkett Miller Center Public Affairs, since 1978. Riverside Memorial lecturer Riverside Church, New York City, 1958.
Lilly lecturer Duke, 1959. James Stokes lecturer New York University, 1962. Rockwell lecturer Rice U., 1965.
Ernest Griffith lecturer American U. Andrew Cecil lecturer University Texas, 1983;Stuber lecturer U. Rochester, 1984. Morgenthau Memorial lecturer, New York City, Mike Mansfield Center lecturer, U. Montana.
Director Institute Study World Politics, New York City, since 1975. Consultant in field.
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President District of Scarsdale and Mamaroneck Board Education, New York, 1965-1968. Trustee Union Theological Seminary, 1967-1971, Dillard University, 1975-1996, Social Science Foundation, University Denver, 1974-1994, Compton Foundation, 1975-1998. 1st lieutenant Army of the United States, 1943-1946.
Fellow Society Religion Higher Education, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Century Club, Scarsdale Town Club, Raven Society (annual award University Virginia), Phi Beta Kappa (president), Omicron Delta Phi.
Married Betty Bergquist (deceased). Married Beverly Bourret (deceased). Children: Kenneth Carlyle, Paul Andrew, James David, Carolyn Cordry.