[Tlc] jim thompson research

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI. Below, a request from our newest member.
Best,
justin

My name is Joshua Kurlantzick, and I am a Southeast Asia
scholar at the
Carnegie Endowment, a leading Washington think-tank. I am
writing a
scholarly biography of Jim Thompson, the former silk
businessman who
lived in Thailand for two decades and then disappeared while
hiking in
Malaysia 
in 1967. I have signed a contract with John Wiley publishing
house to 
write the book, and this will be the first substantial,
scholarly full- 
length biography of Thompson in thirty years. It will attempt
to use
Thompson's life, and the lives of several other Americans who
stayed in
Thailand after WWII, as prisms to examine the broader tensions
in the
US-Thai relationship. 

If anyone knew Thompson at all between 1944-1967, or has
insight into 
his life, please contact me at 202 939 2259 or at 
jkurlantzick at ceip.org  If you wish to speak about Thompson 
confidentially, I promise to conduct confidential interviews,
in which 
your name would never be mentioned. You can see more about my
background
at 

http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=

______________
Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu