Nathaniel Davis Manuscript, 1960

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BA#0734
Bib ID:
4077460 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Davis, Nathaniel, 1925-2011
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
1 item (3 folders)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Summary

Carbon copy of Davis's doctoral dissertation (550 p.) for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, entitled "Religion and Communist Government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe" (1960).

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nathaniel Davis Manuscript; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Manuscript: Source of acquisition--Nathaniel Davis. Date of acquisition--1960. Purchase price--Gift.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Manuscript Accessioned 1960.

Manuscript Processed 02/--/79.

Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Ms 7/Davis.

Revision Description

2020-03-02 PDF removed. jg

Biographical / Historical

Nathaniel Davis (1925 – 2011), American diplomat. Received his degree from Brown University in 1944, the same year he obtained his commission as an ensign in the Navy. He served on the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain until 1946. A year later, earned a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He briefly taught at Fletcher, where he obtained a doctorate in 1960. Davis joined the Foreign Service in 1947. After serving in Prague, Florence, Rome, and Moscow, he became a Soviet desk officer for the State Department in 1957. In 1959, he was an escort officer for Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader toured the U.S. From 1962 to 1965, was a special assistant to Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver and later was a deputy director; in 1965 he left the agency to take the post of U.S. envoy to Bulgaria. In 1968 - U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, served as ambassador during a violent period in that Central American republic before moving on to another delicate assignment, in Chile. In 1975 assistant - secretary of State for African affairs under Kissinger, resigned after four months because of differences with Kissinger and President Ford over covert military operations in Angola. His last foreign posting was as ambassador to Switzerland from 1975 to 1977. From 1977 to 1983, he taught at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Dissertations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
Soviet Union -- Politics and government CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Soviet Union -- Religion -- 1917- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID