Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy

By Douglas Brinkley

Book Overview

President Truman's Secretary of State (1949-53), Dean Acheson was a crucial figure in the shaping of the postwar world. In an astonishingly creative and demanding tenure Acheson was involved to a degree seldom realized today in a huge range of issues: from the creation of NATO to the Korean War. The result of a major commemorative conference, this volume brings together ten distinguished diplomatic historians, commissioned to write on various aspects of Acheson's career, based on primary archival research.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031205016X
• ISBN13: 9780312050160
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 5.8"