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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Paperback - 1987

by Dean Acheson

"As autobiography (this book) is enthralling, as history indispensable, as a manual on government and diplomacy invaluable".--Wallace Carroll, New York Times Book Review. Photographs.


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The author relates his experiences in the State Department during a period that witnessed World War II, European reconstruction, the Korean War and McCarthyism

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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.

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  • Title Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
  • Author Dean Acheson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 848
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
  • Date 1987-10-01
  • ISBN 9780393304121 / 0393304124
  • Weight 2.51 lbs (1.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.18 x 1.6 in (23.52 x 15.70 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.73
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