Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71

by Douglas Brinkley

Book Overview

Dean Acheson is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration, as an important Democratic Party activist and theorist during the Eisenhower presidency and as a valued adviser during the Kennedy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300060750
• ISBN13: 9780300060751
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"