Learning More About Michael Pillsbury
Michael Pillsbury is someone to be talked about. In case you do not know who he is until after one of my history classes in college and even then, I had to look further into it), I can give you a little bit of background on him and his life. He was born and raised in California and he attended Stanford University where he received his degree in History (with Honors in Social Thought). Following his graduation from Stanford, he went to further his education at Columbia where he got his Masters and his PH.D. During his years at Columbia he had several mentors, a few which had served under the Jimmy Carter administration and had played key roles. One of his mentors from Stanford even wrote books on the influence of ancient traditions on Chinese foreign policy (which clearly influenced him greatly).
Mike Pillsbury played many key roles including: Assistant Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations, doctoral dissertation Fellow for the National Science Foundation in Taiwan, analyst at the Social Science Department at RAND and a research fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Following these great roles he was also Assistant under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning (during the Reagan administration) and responsible for the Reagan Doctrine (which lasted about ten or so years). He published many articles in Foreign Policy, a business magazine (which we used in college during one of my history classes) on our intelligence and military ties with China. Needless to say Michael Pillsbury played a huge role in several of the presidential administrations including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Bush.
There are many ways to learn even more about the life of Pillsbury and the impact he made for not only our history but the history of other countries as well. Not only are there several books written about him, but he as well wrote two books about our ties with China (intelligence and military). Aside from the books, there are many articles (again, written by and about him) that would be of interest to anyone trying to find out more about what he has done. You can also check out his Wikipedia site (by searching Michael Pillsbury through Wikipedia) and also the website (that has a ton of both personal and professional information to look into) http://www.michaelpillsbury.net/.