A Democrat Looks at His Party by Dean Acheson (GT81)

Published 1955: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 199 very clean and bright pages, previous owners bookplate on the first free page. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age.

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American statesman Dean Gooderham Acheson promoted the plan of George Catlett Marshall and helped to establish north Atlantic treaty organization.

This lawyer as secretary of state of United States in the Administration of Harry S. Truman, president, from 1949 to 1953 played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped to design the Marshall plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman doctrine and creation of the north Atlantic treaty organization.

In 1964, he received the presidential Medal of Freedom, a decoration that the United States awards to civilians for outstanding achievement in various fields of endeavor. In 1970, he won the Pulitzer Prize for history for Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department , his memoirs of his tenure. The modern library placed the book at number 47 on its top hundred nonfiction books of the 20th century.

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