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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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    A Paperback by Dean Acheson

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      Published 10 January 1987
      ISBN-13 9780393304121
      978-0393304121
      ISBN-10 0393304124

      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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