Present At The Creation My Years In The State Department
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Present At The Creation My Years In The State Department
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Author : Dean Acheson
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1987-09-17
Present At The Creation My Years In The State Department written by Dean Acheson and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-17 with History categories.
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.
Dean Acheson
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Author : Douglas Brinkley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Dean Acheson written by Douglas Brinkley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes Acheson's life and career during the period he served as an advisor to the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, and looks at his influence on American foreign policy after his term as Secretary of State
Affection And Trust
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Author : Harry S. Truman
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Affection And Trust written by Harry S. Truman and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
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.
George F Kennan
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Author : John Lewis Gaddis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-11-10
George F Kennan written by John Lewis Gaddis and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan's death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep. We see Kennan's insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.
Act Of Creation
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Author : Stephen C. Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2003
Act Of Creation written by Stephen C. Schlesinger and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
Sheds light on the roles of John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, Harry Truman, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, and E. B. White in a fascinating account of the creation of the United States in the aftermath of World War II. 40,000 first printing.
Power And International Relations
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Author : Desmond Ball
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Power And International Relations written by Desmond Ball and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Political Science categories.
Coral Mary Bell AO, who died in 2012, was one of the world’s foremost academic experts on international relations, crisis management and alliance diplomacy. This collection of essays by more than a dozen of her friends and colleagues is intended to honour her life and examine her ideas and, through them, her legacy. Part 1 describes her growing up during the Great Depression and the Second World War, her short-lived sojourn in the Department of External Affairs in Canberra, where she was friends with some of the spies who worked for Moscow, and her academic career over the subsequent six decades, the last three of which were at The Australian National University. Most of Coral’s academic career was spent in Departments of International Relations. She was disdainful of academic theory, but as discussed in Part 2, she had a very sophisticated understanding of the subject. She was in many ways a Realist, but one for whom agency, in terms of ideas (the beliefs and perceptions of policy-makers) and institutions (including conventions and norms of behaviour), essentially determined events. Part 3 is concerned with power politics, including such matters as Cold War competitions, crisis management, alliance diplomacy, and US and Australian foreign policies. She recognised that power politics left untrammelled was inevitably catastrophic, and was increasingly attracted to notions of Concerts of Power. ‘Coral would be touched by this collection of essays about her professional and personal life. The contributors offer honest, professional and insightful reviews of her many academic achievements and especially her ideas, many of them the forerunners of others’ work, that makes her one of the very best international relations and strategic thinkers.’ — Dr. Pauline Kerr, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University ‘It’s a rare thing in an international relations expert to possess a balance of theory and experience, history and imagination, realism and hope. Coral had this, and she had a 19th-century prose style to match it. Through her writing she explained the chaos of international events and human affairs in simple and clear language to her baffled compatriots. For the rest of the world, she brought an antipodean temperament and perspective to the great questions of our time; she was our George Kennan in thick glasses, blue floral dress, white sneakers and a string of pearls.’ — Minh Bui Jones, The Lowy Interpreter, 5 October 2012
The Back Channel
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Author : William J. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-03-12
The Back Channel written by William J. Burns and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“A masterful diplomatic memoir” (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leaders—an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world. Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time—from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post–Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post–9/11 tumult in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career. Drawing on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos, he gives readers a rare inside look at American diplomacy in action. His dispatches from war-torn Chechnya and Qaddafi’s bizarre camp in the Libyan desert and his warnings of the “Perfect Storm” that would be unleashed by the Iraq War will reshape our understanding of history—and inform the policy debates of the future. Burns sketches the contours of effective American leadership in a world that resembles neither the zero-sum Cold War contest of his early years as a diplomat nor the “unipolar moment” of American primacy that followed. Ultimately, The Back Channel is an eloquent, deeply informed, and timely story of a life spent in service of American interests abroad. It is also a powerful reminder, in a time of great turmoil, of the enduring importance of diplomacy.
History Of The Office Of The Secretary Of Defense
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
History Of The Office Of The Secretary Of Defense written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
History Of The Office Of The Secretary Of Defense The Test Of War 1950 1953
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Author : Steven L. Rearden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
History Of The Office Of The Secretary Of Defense The Test Of War 1950 1953 written by Steven L. Rearden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Creating The Secret State
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Author : David F. Rudgers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Creating The Secret State written by David F. Rudgers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Based almost entirely on archival and other primary sources, Rudgers's book describes in detail how the CIA evolved from its original purpose - as a watchdog to guard against a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" - to the role of clandestine warriors countering Soviet subversion, eventually engaging in more forms of intelligence gathering and covert operations than any of its counterparts."--BOOK JACKET.