Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American WorldSimon and Schuster, 11 déc. 2007 - 512 pages The highly acclaimed biography of one of the most important and controversial Secretaries of State of the twentieth century, this is an intimate portrait of the quintessential man of action who was vilified by the McCarthyites for being soft on communism, yet set in place the strategies and policies that won the Cold War and brought down the USSR. This is the authoritative biography of Dean Acheson, the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. Drawing on Acheson family diaries and letters as well as revelations from Russian and Chinese archives, historian James Chace traces Acheson's remarkable life, from his days as a schoolboy at Groton and his carefree life at Yale to his work for President Franklin Roosevelt on international financial policy and his unique partnership with President Truman. It is an important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most critical decades of American history. |
Table des matières
The Custom of the Country | 9 |
A BOYS LIFE | 13 |
Et in Arcadia Ego | 15 |
A World Apart | 21 |
The Most Dashing of Yale Men | 29 |
This Wonderful Mechanism the Brain | 37 |
THE IMPERATIVES OF ACTION | 41 |
The Heroes | 43 |
In Marshalls Chair | 193 |
Letting the Dust Settle | 210 |
That Moment of Decision | 225 |
The German Question the British Connection and the French Solution | 241 |
Putting Our Hand to the Plow | 255 |
Situations of Strength | 270 |
An Entirely New War | 280 |
The Substitute for Victory | 304 |
The Regular Connection of Ideas | 50 |
A Low Life but a Merry One | 59 |
Forces Stronger Than Reason | 69 |
Most Unsordid Acts | 82 |
The New Economic World Order | 93 |
The Good Life Is Very Hard | 104 |
FROM ALLIANCE TO COLD | 111 |
An Armament Race of a Rather Desperate Nature | 113 |
No Grand Strategy | 130 |
A Graceful Way Out | 138 |
Risking War | 146 |
Clearer Than Truth | 156 |
Reveille in Mississippi | 170 |
The HabitForming Drug of Public Life | 182 |
THE SECRETARY OF STATE | 191 |
Entangling Alliances | 323 |
Endgame | 342 |
That Candles May Be Brought | 349 |
Rejoining the Fray | 367 |
A Sort of Ancient Mariner | 381 |
The Survival of States | 395 |
Contending with LBJ | 410 |
Into the Quagmire | 418 |
Seductions and Betrayals | 429 |
A Blade of Steel | 439 |
Notes | 443 |
Selected Bibliography | 489 |
Acknowledgments | 495 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Acheson: The Secretary of State who Created the American World James Chace Affichage d'extraits - 1998 |
Acheson: The Secretary of State who Created the American World James Chace Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
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