Dean Acheson

Author : Dean Acheson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324064602

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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state. Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349226115

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Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy by Douglas Brinkley Pdf

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.

Author : Michael F. Hopkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538100028

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Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power by Michael F. Hopkins Pdf

Dean Acheson was the most influential American diplomat of the twentieth century. He shaped the pivotal shift in American foreign policy from isolation to engagement in global affairs, This critical re-evaluation of Acheson’s public career analyzes his advocacy of intervention against Germany and Japan in 1939-1941, work on sanctions against Japan in 1941, contribution to the creation of new international institutions, and campaigns to secure the support of Congress and the American public. It scrutinizes his crucial role in the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the formation of democratic governments in Germany and Japan, and involvement in the Korean War. It examines his advice on Europe and Vietnam to presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Acheson was the architect of the policy of containing the Soviet Union that endured to the end of the Cold War. The book argues that Acheson was slower to abandon the prospect of understandings with the Soviets and the communists in China than his memoirs claim; his focus on the North Atlantic did not exclude his deep concern for Asian; and the policy of containment was part of his wider belief that American power brought the obligation to promote a stable international order.

Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597976534

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Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order by Robert J. McMahon Pdf

This compact and accessible biography critically assesses the life and career of Dean Acheson, one of Americaas foremost diplomats and strategists. As a top State Department official from 1941 to 1947 and as Harry S. Trumanas secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, Acheson shaped many of the key U.S. foreign policy initiatives of those years, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the rebuilding of Germany and Japan, Americaas intervention in Korea, and its early involvement in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Right up until his death in 1971, Acheson continued to participate in major policy decisions and debates, including the Cuban missile and Berlin crises and the Vietnam War.Dean Acheson can justifiably be called the principal architect of the American Century. More than any other individual, Acheson is responsible for designing and implementing the ultimately successful U.S. Cold War strategy for containing the Soviet Union. In an even broader sense, Acheson played an instrumental role in creating the institutions, alliances, and economic arrangements that, in the 1940s, brought to life an American-dominated world order. The remarkable durability of that world orderwhich has remained the dominant fact of international life long after the end of the Cold Warmakes a careful examination of Achesonas diplomacy especially relevant to todayas international challenges.

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300060750

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Dean Acheson by Douglas Brinkley Pdf

Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower's presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.

Author : James Chace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684864827

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Acheson by James Chace Pdf

Acheson is the first complete biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. More than any other of the renowned "Wise Men" who together proposed our vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dean Acheson was the quintessential man of action. Drawing on Acheson family diaries and letters as well as recent 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. Acheson was a housemate of Cole Porter's at Harvard Law School, a protégé of Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter's, a friend of poet Archibald MacLeish's, a key adviser to General George Marshall, and a confidant of Winston Churchill's. Serving as Truman's secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, he was indeed "present at the creation," as he entitled his memoirs. More than any other of Truman's powerful and glamorous advisers, Acheson conceived the shape of the postwar world and mastered the policies that ensured its birth and endurance. He was the driving force behind the Truman Doctrine to contain the Soviet Union's expansionist ambitions; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the shattered economies of Europe; and NATO, the military alliance that would bind Western Europe and the United States and keep the Soviet Union firmly behind the Iron Curtain until it collapsed. Chace corrects many misconceptions about Acheson's role in the Cold War. Acheson was not one of the original Cold Warriors. In 1945, willing to acknowledge Soviet concerns about its security, Acheson worked closely with Secretary of War Henry Stimson on a plan to share America's scientific information about atomic energy with Moscow in order to avert an arms race. It was only when Moscow made threatening demands on Turkey for bases in the Dardanelles that Acheson hardened his views toward the Soviet Union. Acheson's initial approach toward Communist China was similarly nonideological. He had little sympathy for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists on Taiwan and, until the outbreak of the Korean War, held out hope that the United States would soon recognize Mao Zedong's regime as the legitimate government of China. Acheson's early pragmatism toward Moscow and Beijing, and his refusal to denounce Alger Hiss, a State Department colleague accused of being a Communist, earned him the enmity of the McCarthyites, who accused Acheson of having "lost" China and of sabotaging General Douglas MacArthur in Korea. Later, Acheson encouraged President Kennedy to stand firm against the Soviets in the Berlin Wall and Cuban missile crises. He headed a group of elder statesmen who advised President Johnson on the Vietnam War. When Acheson turned against the war, Johnson realized that domestic support for his policy had crumbled. Acheson is a masterful biography of a great statesman whose policies won the Cold War. It is also an important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most critical decades of the American Century.

Author : Robert L. Beisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199754896

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Dean Acheson by Robert L. Beisner Pdf

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. In this acclaimed biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century. In a book filled with insight based on research in government archives, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Beisner illuminates Acheson's major triumphs, including the highly underrated achievement of converting West Germany and Japan from mortal enemies to prized allies, and does not shy away from examining his missteps. But underlying all his actions, Beisner shows, was a tough-minded determination to outmatch the strength of the Soviet bloc--indeed, to defeat the Soviet Union at every turn. The book also sheds light on Acheson's friendship with Truman--one, a bourbon-drinking mid-Westerner with a homespun disposition, the other, a mustachioed Connecticut dandy who preferred perfect martinis. Over six foot tall, with steel blue, "merry, searching eyes" and a "wolfish" grin, Dean Acheson was an unforgettable character--intellectually brilliant, always debonair, and tough as tempered steel. This lustrous portrait of an immensely accomplished and colorful life is the epitome of the biographer's art.

Author : Ronald L. McGlothlen
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0393035204

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Controlling the Waves by Ronald L. McGlothlen Pdf

Examines the role played by Secretary of State Dean Acheson in rebuilding Japan's economy and solidifying American power in the Pacific during the years of 1949-1952, and looks at the consequences

Author : Harry S. Truman,Dean Acheson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803245266

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Affection and Trust by Harry S. Truman,Dean Acheson Pdf

In this collection, published for the first time, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period, as they move from an official relationship to one of candor, humor, and personal expression. In these letters, spanning the years from when both were newly out of office until Acheson's death at age 78, we find them sharing the often surprising opinions, ideas, and feelings that the strictures of their offices had previously kept them from revealing. They felt a powerful need to keep in touch as they viewed with dismay what they considered to be the Eisenhower administration's fumbling of foreign affairs and the impact of Joseph McCarthy. After Kennedy won in 1960, they discussed Acheson's reluctant involvement in the Cuban missile crisis and the Allied position in Berlin--From publisher description.

Author : Dean Acheson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Reconstruction (1939-1951)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120505297

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The Requirements of Reconstruction by Dean Acheson Pdf

Author : Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684837710

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The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas Pdf

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Author : Dean Acheson
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0393099784

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The Korean War by Dean Acheson Pdf

Author : David S. McLellan
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046456508

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Dean Acheson by David S. McLellan Pdf

Author : Gaddis Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cabinet officers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002121346

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Dean Acheson by Gaddis Smith Pdf

An appraisal of Dean Acheson during his time as Secretary of State. -- Dust jacket.

Author : Robert Beisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195382488

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Dean Acheson by Robert Beisner Pdf

A vibrant, definitive biography of Dean Acheson, the foreign policy giant who helped shape the postwar world.