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; Lengthily Inscribed by Dean Acheson in the year of Publication
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969.
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First edition of Acheson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Adolfo Alessandrini fellow author and colleague in the field of foreign affairs, with the best wishes of Dean Acheson October 1969." Very good in a very good dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. Photograph of Acheson by Jim Keith. First editions are 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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