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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state.

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"The passing decades confirm Dean Acheson's place as the clearest thinking, most effective Secretary of State of the twentieth century. As a writer he has no equal since Thomas Jefferson first occupied the office in the eighteenth century." -- Gaddis Smith, Yale University

Present at the Creation

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      Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780393304121, 978-0393304121
      ISBN10: 0393304124
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

      With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state.

      Trade Review
      "The passing decades confirm Dean Acheson's place as the clearest thinking, most effective Secretary of State of the twentieth century. As a writer he has no equal since Thomas Jefferson first occupied the office in the eighteenth century." -- Gaddis Smith, Yale University

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