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Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order (Paperback)
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Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order (Paperback)
Series: Shapers of International History
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List price R558
Loot Price R469
Discovery Miles 4 690
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This compact and accessible biography critically assesses the life
and career of Dean Acheson, one of America s foremost diplomats and
strategists. As a top State Department official from 1941 to 1947
and as Harry S. Truman s 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, America s 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 order which has remained the dominant fact of
international life long after the end of the Cold War makes a
careful examination of Acheson s diplomacy especially relevant to
today s international challenges.
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