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Acheson published his lengthy and detailed memoirs of his "years in the State Department" in September 1969. He had long foresworn plans to write of his years as a key maker of foreign policy, fearing, as he put it in an apologia pro libre hoc, that "detachment and objectivity would become suspect" and
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. Dean Acheson. 4.03. 386 ratings31 reviews. Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects.
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A gripping account of Indigenous justice in early America, and how the aftermath of a settler’s murder of a Native American man led to the oldest continuously recognized treaty in the United States. See all History.
Dec 15, 1971 · Doris A. Graber, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 86, Issue 4, December 1971, Pages 678–680, https://doi.org/10.2307/2147468
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.
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Mar 22, 2017 · Present at the Creation is an insightful, absorbing and even occasionally humorous insider’s guide to how that system was created. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1970 and is...
This lawyer as secretary of state of United States in the Administration of Harry S. Truman, president, from 1949 to 1953 played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.
