Thornton, Richard C.

RICHARD C. THORNTON is Professor of History and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., where he has taught for the past thirty-four years. A retired, reserve U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, he has served as a consultant to the Department of State, and lectured around the world for USIA. His major works include: Odd Man Out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War; The Falklands Sting; Reagan, Thatcher, and Argentina’s Bomb; The Carter Years: Toward A New Global Order; and China: A Political History 1917-1980..