Research Catalog

Title

The brothers : John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret world war / Stephen Kinzer.

Author

Kinzer, Stephen

Publication

New York : Time Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

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Details

Description

402 pages; 25 cm

Summary

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak.

Subjects

• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• History
• Intelligence service > United States > History > 20th century
• United States > Central Intelligence Agency > Officials and employees > Biography
• Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
• Spies > United States > Biography
• Statesmen > United States > Biography
• United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961
• Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969
• Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-382) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART I: TWO BROTHERS -- Unmentionable Happenings -- The Taint of My Environment -- Dull, Duller, Dulles -- That Fella from Wall Street -- PART II: SIX MONSTERS -- A Whirling Dervish with a College Education -- The Most Forthright Pro-Communist -- A Matchless Interplay of Ruthlessness and Guile -- The Self-Intoxicated President -- The Tall, Goateed Radical -- The Bearded Strongman -- PART III: ONE CENTURY -- A Face of God --

ISBN

• 9780805094978 (hardcover)
• 0805094970 (hardcover)
• 1429953527 (ebk.)
• 9781429953528 (ebk.)
• 9781429953528 (electronic book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013007718

OCLC

• 827256871
• SCSB-12300711

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library