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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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William George Maguire -- John Thomas Smith -- More about J.T. -- My father Gerard C. Smith -- Life in Washington in the early Fifties -- Reflection: Religion and "last things" -- State department: Round one -- The Sixties -- J.T.S. II Yale years -- Romance, marriage, & military service -- Reflection: A digression on "sex" -- GCS and strategic arms limitations -- J.T.S. II initial public service -- Reflection: Digression by a member of the first nuclear weapons generation -- J.T.S. II six months of justice -- Reflection: A digression on alcohol -- GCS in the 1970s -- J.T.S. II 1973-1978 -- Reflection: A digression on family and friends -- The 1980s: A fraught decade -- Reflection: A digression on my mother -- Two divorces and three weddings -- Reflection: A digression on divorce -- My father's final years -- Reflection: A digression on reading -- Private practice -- Final days and reflections -- Reflection: A final digression on war and death and American "exceptionalism." |
| Summary |
This multigenerational memoir sketches the lives of three generations of the author's family that were involved with some of the most profound issues of the twentieth century. With a paternal grandfather present at the creation of General Motors Corporation, a maternal grandfather who was a natural gas pipeline pioneer, and a father who worked to constrain the nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia and to curtail proliferation of nuclear weapons. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Smith, John Thomas, 1943-
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Smith, John Thomas, 1943- |
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Smith, Gerard C.
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Smith, Gerard C. |
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Smith, John Thomas, 1879-1947.
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Smith, John Thomas, 1879-1947. |
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Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Lawyers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Smith, John Thomas, 1943- Cars, energy, nuclear diplomacy and the law. Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., ©2012 9781442220119 (DLC) 2012020656 (OCoLC)794973744 |
| ISBN |
9781442220126 (electronic book) |
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1442220120 (electronic book) |
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9781589797949 (electronic book) |
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1589797949 (electronic book) |
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9781442220119 |
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1442220112 |
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9781589797932 |
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1589797930 |
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