Acheson: Secretary of State Who Created American World; Author: Chace, James (Henry Luce Professor in Freedom of Inquiry and Expression, Bard College, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Chace, James (Henry Luce Professor in Freedom of Inquiry and Expression, Bard College, USA)
Hardback; Book; B&w Halftones
512 pages
Published: March 1999
Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
ISBN: 0684808439
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Calling Dan Acheson the most important American Secretary of State of the 20th century, this definitive biography describes how he and President Harry Truman created the power that won the Cold War and established a world order that still prevails.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.