Published for the first time: the personal letters of President Harry S. Truman and his secretary of state, Dean Acheson, from 1953, the year when both were newly out of office, until Acheson's death at the age of 78 in 1971.
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Published for the first time: the personal letters of President Harry S. Truman and his secretary of state, Dean Acheson, from 1953, the year when both were newly out of office, until Acheson's death at the age of 78 in 1971.
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Good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Inscribed on t-p by David C. Acheson. A few marginal pencil marks noted. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xv, [3] 343, [7] p. Illustrations, black & white, Frontispiece. List of Letters. Index. Introduction by David McCullough. From Wikipedia: "Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Acheson's most famous decision was convincing President Truman to intervene in the Korean War in June 1950. He also persuaded Truman to dispatch aid and advisors to French forces in Indochina. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into a strategic advisory group. In the late 1940s Acheson came under attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for his defense of State Department employees by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others."
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