Acheson. The Secretary Of State Who Created The American World By James Chace 1998 Paperback Edition December 2007

Dean Gooderham Acheson 51st Secretary Of State Architect of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

PART ONE: A BOY’S LIFE 1. Et in Arcadia Ego 2. A World Apart 3. The Most Dashing of Yale Men 4. “This Wonderful Mechanism, the Brain” PART TWO: THE IMPERATIVES OF ACTION 5. The Heroes 6. “The Regular Connection of Ideas” 7. “A Low Life but a Merry One” 8. “Forces Stronger Than Reason” 9. Most Unsordid Acts 10. The New Economic World Order 11. “The Good Life Is Very Hard” PART THREE: FROM ALLIANCE TO COLD WAR 12. “An Armament Race of a Rather Desperate Nature” 13. No Grand Strategy 14. “A Graceful Way Out” 15. Risking War 16. “Clearer Than Truth” 17. Reveille in Mississippi 18. The Habit-Forming Drug of Public Life PART FOUR: THE SECRETARY OF STATE 19. In Marshall’s Chair 20. Letting the Dust Settle 21. “That Moment of Decision” 22. The German Question, the British Connection, and the French Solution 23. Putting Our Hand to the Plow 24. Situations of Strength 25. “An Entirely New War” 26. The Substitute for Victory 27. Entangling Alliances 28. Endgame 29. “That Candles May Be Brought” PART FIVE: THE WARRIOR IN EXILE 30. Rejoining the Fray 31. “A Sort of Ancient Mariner” 32. “The Survival of States” 33. Contending with LBJ 34. Into the Quagmire 35. Seductions and Betrayals Coda: “A Blade of Steel”