Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Name: Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
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ISBN: 9780805094978

ISBN-10: 0805094970

ISBN-13: 9780805094978

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stephen Kinzer

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A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?The Brothers explores hidden…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342

Stephen Kinzer is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.



Introduction



Two Brothers



Unmentionable Happenings



The Taint of My Environment



Dull, Duller, Dulles



That Fella from Wall Street



Six Monsters



A Whirling Dervish with a College Education



The Most Forthright Pro-Communist



A Matchless Interplay of Ruthlessness and Guile



The Self-Intoxicated President



The Tall, Goateed Radical



The Bearded Strongman



One Century



A Face of God


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index