Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World - Couverture rigide

Chace, James

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ISBN 10 : 0684808439 ISBN 13 : 9780684808437

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Drawing on his family diaries and letters as well as the latest revelations from Russian and Chinese archives, this is a biography of Dan Acheson, Truman's controversial secretary of state, tracing his ascent from carefree schoolboy at Groton to architect of the post-war world.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"James Chance's absorbing biographt does justice to all aspects of a fascinating man." -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"Acheson is a great American biography. Written with the historian's sweep and the novelist's talent, it tells the engrossing story of a remarkable American who did so much to shape the American Century. But it does even more. For Acheson also illuminates our future." -- Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize

"It is hard to read this account of Acheson and Truman and not feel considerable nostalgia for an earlier Democratic administration, when giants truly walked the earth." -- Francis Fukuyama, The New York Times Book Review

"A useful, clear history of the major events of the postwar world that Acheson helped to shape.... A book about...a figure of clear vision and strong character who managed to support mostly the right policies when other policies were being proposed." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

"This comprehensive biography of Dean Acheson is a page-turner.... Chace draws on original research and interviews, revelations from newly opened archives, and decades of scholarship. Immensely readable, this is an indispensable book about a titan who...provided indispensable leadership in the seminal years of the 1940s and 1950s for what was to become the indispensable country." -- David Fromkin, author of In the Time of the Americans

"To understand America's role in the world today, you have to understand Acheson, one of the century's most influential and colorful statesmen. And Chace does. He portrays him as a brilliant realist who had the ability and desire to assure that the United States was willing to assert its power." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Kissinger

Présentation de l'éditeur

More than any other of the renowned 'wise men' who together proposed a vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dan Acheson was the quintessential man of action. Drawing on his family diaries and letters as well as the latest revelations from Russian and Chinese archives, this is the first full biography of Truman's controversial secretary of state, tracing his ascent from carefree schoolboy at Groton to architect of the post-war world.
Under FDR and Truman, Acheson helped forge the Bretton Woods accords that defined America's global economic pre-dominance after World War II, and was the driving force behind the Marshall Plan for reconstructing war-torn Western Europe. He fashioned the Truman doctrine and NATO to contain Soviet expansionism yet was vilified by the McCarthyites as having 'lost' China and sabatoged General MacArthur in Korea.
ACHESON is a masterful biography of one of the 20th Century's greatest statesman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684808439
• ISBN 13: 9780684808437
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible