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Article: Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World.
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- National Review
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- October 12, 1998
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Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, by James Chace (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., $30)
HISTORY has been kinder to Dean Acheson than commentary in his own time, particularly from conservatives. Policy controversies of the time--the "loss of China," the handling of the Korean War--can still be debated, but the Truman era is now remembered favorably as a period of creative and resolute American foreign policy. The "Truman Doctrine," which rescued Greece and Turkey; the Marshall Plan; the North Atlantic Treaty and the formation of NATO; the decision to resist aggression in Korea and the U.S. rearmament afterward-these are now seen as major ...
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