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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

By Dean Acheson

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton Company
Year
1987
ISBN
0393304124, 9780393304121
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52759329 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
848\844
Time added
2021-12-10 19:04:21

Description

Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.

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