John Foster Dulles The Last Year Foreword By Dwight D Eisenhower
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Author | : Richard H. Immerman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1992-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780691006222 |
As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
Author | : John D. Wilsey |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1467462144 |
When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of the truly great men of our time,” and a few years later the new commercial airport outside Washington, DC, was christened the Dulles International Airport in his honor. His star has fallen significantly since that time, but his influence remains indelible—most especially regarding his role in bringing the worldview of American exceptionalism to the forefront of US foreign policy during the Cold War era, a worldview that has long outlived him. God’s Cold Warrior recounts how Dulles’s faith commitments from his Presbyterian upbringing found fertile soil in the anti-communist crusades of the mid-twentieth century. After attending the Oxford Ecumenical Church Conference in 1937, he wrote about his realization that “the spirit of Christianity, of which I learned as a boy, was really that of which the world now stood in very great need, not merely to save souls, but to solve the practical problems of international affairs.” Dulles believed that America was chosen by God to defend the freedom of all those vulnerable to the godless tyranny of communism, and he carried out this religious vision in every aspect of his diplomatic and political work. He was conspicuous among those US officials in the twentieth century that prominently combined their religious convictions and public service, making his life and faith key to understanding the interconnectedness of God and country in US foreign affairs.
Author | : Dwight David Eisenhower |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 659 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801866995 |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : Stephen Kinzer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429953527 |
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During 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 forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
Author | : Eleanor Lansing Dulles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Cabinet officers |
ISBN | : |
A factual account with personal glimpses, written by the subject's sister who spent a number of years in the Department of State.
Author | : Richard H. Immerman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780842026017 |
John Foster Dulles was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations. Active in the field for decades, Dulles reflected and was a reflection of the tension that pervaded U.S. international conduct from its evolution as a global power in the early twentieth century through its emergence as the 'leader of the Free World' during the Cold War. His life and career embody the best and most troubling aspects of American foreign policy as it progressed toward international supremacy while swaying between altruism and self-interest. In this biography, Richard Immerman traces Dulles's path from his early days growing up in the parsonage of the First Presbyterian Church of Watertown, N.Y., through his years of amassing influence and power as an international business lawyer and adviser, to his service as President Eisenhower's secretary of state. This volume illuminates not only the history of modern U.S. foreign policy, but its search for a twentieth-century identity. Sophisticated yet accessible, John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy is an important resource for graduate and undergraduate courses in U.S. history and U.S. foreign relations.
Author | : Richard H. Immerman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691226830 |
As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Not only the lives of this century's presidents, but also the figures and events that surround them are covered by the works in this series. This particular volume covers the lives and times of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Thousands of books, articles and dissertations are cited and summarised in each of these detailed, accessible bibliographies. The contents are organised by topic to enable researchers to easily focus on broad or narrow areas of interest. The volumes also contain introductions assessing the presidents' places in history and detailed chronologies of their lives. Each chapter begins with an overview of the relevant literature and points out the key sources in different subject areas. All the volumes are indexed by author and subject.
Author | : David A. Nichols |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439139342 |
Draws on hundreds of newly declassified documents to present an account of the Suez crisis that reveals the considerable danger it posed as well as the influence of Eisenhower's health problems and the 1956 election campaign.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1260 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)