Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years 1953-71 (Signed Copy)

Dean Acheson is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration, as an important Democratic Party activist and theorist during the Eisenhower presidency and as a valued adviser during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. This engrossing book, the first to chronicle Acheson's post-secretarial career, paints a portrait of a brilliant, irascible, and powerful man acting during a turbulent period in American history.

Published 1992.

Binding of book is slightly intact. Some shelfwear, fading, fraying, tearing and creasing on dust jacket. Sticker on front of dust jacket. Slight shelfwear and fraying on covers of book. Slight tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pen and slight foxing on endpapers. Very little foxing on certain pages, otherwise in good condition. Plates remain intact.