TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chace,James
TI  - Acheson: the Secretary of State who created the American world 
SN  - 0684808439
AV  - E748.A15 C43 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Acheson, Dean,
KW  - United States
KW  - Dept. of State
KW  - Biography
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1945-1989
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-494) and index; Prologue : The custom of the country -- A boy's life. Et in arcadia ego ; A world apart ; The most dashing of Yale men ; "This wonderful mechanism, the brain" -- The imperatives of action. The heroes ; "The regular connection of ideas" ; "A low life but a merry one" ; "Forces stronger than reason" ; Most unsordid acts ; The new economic world order ; "The good life is very hard" -- From alliance to Cold War. "An armament race of a rather desperate nature" ; No grand strategy ; "A graceful way out" ; Risking war ; "Clearer than truth" ; Reveille in Mississippi ; The habit-forming drug of public life -- The Secretary of State. In Marshall's chair ; Letting the dust settle ; "That moment of decision" ; The German question, the British connection, and the French solution ; Putting our hand to the plow ; Situations of strength ; "An entirely new war" ; The substitute for victory ; Entangling alliances ; Endgame ; "That candles may be brought" -- The warrior in exile. Rejoining the fray ; "A sort of ancient mariner" ; "The survival of states" ; Contending with LBJ ; Into the quagmire ; Seductions and betrayals -- Coda : "A blade of steel."
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy052/98003801.html
ER  -