Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy

by Douglas Brinkley (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333567357
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/09/1993
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New–York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "America's New Past Master." He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America), Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two–volume, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction; P.H.Nitze - The Rise and Fall of Economic Diplomacy: Dean Acheson and the Marshall Plan; M.J.Hogan - Dean Acheson and the Atlantic Community; L.S.Kaplan - Acheson, the Bomb, and the Cold War; R.L.Messer - Loy Henderson, Dean Acheson and the Origins of the Truman Doctrine; B.L.Kuniholm - China's Place in the Cold War: The Acheson Plan; N.B.Tucker - Dean Acheson and the Japanese Peace Treaty; T.Igarashi - Frustrating the Kremlin Design: Acheson and N.S.C.68; S.L.Rearden - Negotiating from Strength: Acheson, the Russians and American Power; M.P.Leffler - Marshall and Acheson: The State Department Years, 1945-51; F.C.Pogue - Foreign Economic Policy in Dean Acheson's Time and Ours; W.Diebold - Index