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Jim Thompson The Legendary American Of Thailand
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Jim Thompson The Legendary American Of Thailand written by William Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Silk manufacturers categories.
The Legendary American
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Jim Thompson
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher: Didier Millet,Csi
Release Date : 2014-12
Jim Thompson written by William Warren and has been published by Didier Millet,Csi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On Easter Day, 1967, American businessman and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H.W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands, central Malaysia. The circumstances were unusual, and led to a massive search and investigation. Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has ever been found . . . Jim Thompson was already a legend in Southeast Asia. Some twenty years earlier, in middle age, he had abandoned his former life to embark on an exotic business career, establishing Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company. With his fortune he built a house and art collection which are among Bangkok's top tourist attractions today. After he vanished, Jim Thompson became the subject of a second legend, a mystery that has never been solved. The facts were first recounted by William Warren in 1970 in his book The Legendary American. Today, many people in Thompson's circle are no longer living. Now the author, who knew Thompson well, is able to write more freely. This revised edition contains new material on Thompson's private life and his alleged role as a CIA agent, drawn from interviews with people close to the events. The result is this definitive account of a true-life mystery of international proportions.
The Ideal Man
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Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2011-10-13
The Ideal Man written by Joshua Kurlantzick and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance
In Search Of The Silk King
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Author : Maya Herman
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005-08-24
In Search Of The Silk King written by Maya Herman and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-24 with Fiction categories.
Maya Herman In Search of The Silk King A Novel Among many stories I heard in Southeast Asia, the most fascinating is the story of the legendary American “silk king” of Thailand – Jim Thompson. It is as mysterious as Asia itself. The name Jim Thompson seemed to follow me from the first moment I arrived in Bangkok. The more stories and rumors I heard, the more I became fascinated by them. They had all the ingredients of a good novel or a major movie – romance, mystery, glamour, exotic locations, and more. The legend of the “silk king” and his disappearance remains as mysterious today as it was in 1967. No clues were ever found. Only unanswered questions remained. Using poetic license, I decided to write a novel that might answer some of them. As such, the novel is very loosely and only in part based on the real life of Jim Thompson, as I learned of it primarily through living in Bangkok, traveling extensively throughout Southeast Asia and writing about it in my book of travel essays, The Jade Window (Bangkok, 1998). It is also in part based on the information I gathered in my research from the newspaper articles on Thompson, William Warren’s indispensable biography of him, on the interviews with Warren and Henry Thompson, through Alexander Macdonald’s notes and OSS archives, for all of which I am immensely grateful. Still, my “Jim Thompson”is not a historic but a fictional character. In Search of The Silk King is a work of fiction written in many voices that are tempered with the measure of truth. Any errors – biographical, historical, intended, or otherwise - are solely mine. This is the story of an adventure told in hero’s voice and in various voices of the people who knew him. It is also the story of his life that had the sweep of a historical romance and the power of a heroic quest. As Jim Thompson’s absorbing tale unfolds, the reader discovers what happened after his disappearance, how he succeeded and suffered and eventually found the truth. It is a novel of suspense, of fate and love lost and found. The “Jim Thompson” of my novel thinks of himself as an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. There are, on the tapes he sent from his after-life in exile to a journalist friend, his memories of the past: his childhood desire to travel to exotic places ... of his first and greatest love, of his marriage. As a young man, Jim went to New York and worked as an architect. He met Vera, a Russian ballerina, and fell in love with her. He gave her a brooch designed as a pair of ballet slippers made of emeralds and diamonds as a token of his great love. When Vera decided to go back to her old lover she returned one of the two slippers. Jim kept the slipper as the memento of his love that would prove to be fatal. After the breakup, Jim tried to find a new direction in life. He married a woman he barely knew and enlisted in the Army. This was his way of escaping the loss of his first great love that would mark his whole emotional life. He went to Africa where he worked for the OSS with Maurice, a half-French, half-Laotian mystery man. Not eager to return home, Jim volunteered to go to Southeast Asia. This was the real beginning of his journey. He fell in love with Bangkok and wanted to stay there even after the war was over. His wife Pat did not share his enthusiasm and agreed to a divorce. Jim returned to Bangkok with a plan to renovate the Oriental hotel. He did not succeed in that, but found his true vocation in a forgotten art of silk making. Jim almost single-handedly revived the Thai silk industry and became the most successful American businessman in Thailand. There is a story about silk. Jim’s life seemed full. He built a beautiful house and opened a new store. He seemed to have finally found his fulfillment. He had a beautiful young mistress, Nicole, and seemed
Bangkok
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2002
Bangkok written by William Warren and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"Bangkok" is an informal portrait of the city, where the districts and cities of modern Bangkok are explored in a series of personal impressions of the people, their customs, cuisines and modern life.
Siam
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Author : Lily Tuck
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 2000
Siam written by Lily Tuck and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
The culture shock of a newly arrived American woman in 1967 Thailand, wife of an engineer building airfields for the bombing of Vietnam. It is hot, the Thais don't want to be friends, servants steal and the food gives her indigestion.
Jim Thompson The House On The Klong
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher: Didier Millet,Csi
Release Date : 1999
Jim Thompson The House On The Klong written by William Warren and has been published by Didier Millet,Csi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
The polished wood panels of a group of Thai-style teak houses face the slow-moving waters of the Klong Maha Nag. Here was the home of Jim Thompson, a man whose flair for the tasteful and graceful led him to build a house in which objects of great value an
Thai Style
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Release Date : 2012-07
Thai Style written by William Warren and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Architecture categories.
A Special Relationship
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Author : Daniel Fineman
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
A Special Relationship written by Daniel Fineman and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Political Science categories.
The development of the Thai-American alliance from 1947 to 1958 dramatically transformed both countries' involvement in Southeast Asia. Bounded by two important political events in Thailand, an army coup in 1947 and the military's assumption of complete control of government in 1958, the period witnessed both the entrenchment of authoritarian military government in Thailand and a revolution in U.S.-Thai relations. During these years the modern Thai political system emerged, and the United States established its interest and influence in mainland Southeast Asian affairs. The developments of the period made possible American's later, more extensive, involvement in Indochina. A Special Relationship provides the most comprehensive analysis of this critical founding period of the Thai-American alliance. It reveals surprising new information on joint covert operations in Indochina, American support for suppression of government opponents, and CIA involvement in Thai domestic politics.
