JAMES K. LIBBEY is professor emeritus at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the author of "Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917 1933" (University Press of Kentucky, 1977); "Dear Alben: Mr. Barkley of Kentucky" (University Press of Kentucky, 2009); "American-Russian Economic Relations, 1770s 1990s" (Regina, 1989); and "Soviet-American Documents, Vol. 5, The Cold War Begins, 1946 1949" (Academic International Press, 2006). He lives in St. Augustine, Florida.