Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
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 I, 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.
"The passing decades confirm Dean Acheson's place as the clearest thinking, most effective Secretary of State of the twentieth centuryAs a writer he has no equal since Thomas Jefferson first occupied the office in the eighteenth century." -- Gaddis Smith, Yale University
Dean Acheson (1893-1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393304121 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393304124 |
| Title | Present at the Creation |
| Author | Dean Acheson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1988-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 842 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1970 |
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