ACHESON, Dean.
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department.
First Edition of Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department; Inscribed by Dean Acheson
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969.
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First edition, early printing of Acheson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John T. Chadwell with best wishes Dean Acheson." The recipient, John T. Chadwell who was a Chicago lawyer who often represented major companies in antitrust suits. Mr. Chadwell received bachelors' and law degrees from the University of Illinois. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. Photograph of Acheson by Jim Keith. Uncommon signed as Acheson passed away in 1971.
Dean Acheson was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department.
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