Title Cars, energy, nuclear diplomacy and the law : cars, energy, nuclear diplomacy and the law : a reflective memoir of three generations / John Thomas Smith II

Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Notes Print version record Subject Smith, John Thomas, 1943- Smith, Gerard C Smith, John Thomas, 1879-1947. SUBJECT Smith, Gerard C. fast Smith, John Thomas, 1879-1947 fast Smith, John Thomas, 1943- fast Subject Lawyers -- United States -- Biography Businessmen -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges. Businessmen Lawyers United States Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442220126 1442220120 9781589797949 1589797949

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