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Book The Devil and John Foster Dulles

Download or read book The Devil and John Foster Dulles written by Townsend Hoopes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil and John Foster Dulles

Download or read book The Devil and John Foster Dulles written by Townsend Hoopes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brothers  John Foster Dulles  Allen Dulles  and Their Secret World War

Download or read book The Brothers John Foster Dulles Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Dulles

Download or read book Dulles written by Leonard Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles, children of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith Foster.

Book The Devil s Chessboard

Download or read book The Devil s Chessboard written by David Talbot and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures. Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.

Book Devil Dog

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Talbot
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-10-05
  • ISBN : 1439117748
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Devil Dog written by David Talbot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp History brings to life extraordinary feats of bravery, violence, and redemption that history has forgotten. These stories are so dramatic and thrilling they have to be true. In DEVIL DOG, the most decorated Marine in history fights for America across the globe—and returns home to set his country straight. Smedley Butler took a Chinese bullet to the chest at age eighteen, but that did not stop him from running down rebels in Nicaragua and Haiti, or from saving the lives of his men in France. But when he learned that America was trading the blood of Marines to make Wall Street fat cats even fatter, Butler went on a crusade. He threw the gangsters out of Philadelphia, faced down Herbert Hoover to help veterans, and blew the lid off a plot to overthrow FDR.

Book The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles

Download or read book The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles written by John Foster Dulles and published by Philadelphia : Westminister Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Duel at the Brink

Download or read book Duel at the Brink written by Roscoe Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first year following John Foster Dulles' death found many of the statesmen with whom he dealt still on the scene. Their disclosures to these authors have been the principal source of the new information about Dulles that is presented in this book. Some of these new insights into his record as Secretary of State weigh heavily in his favor; some of them severely against him. In the light of this fuller view of his behind-the-scenes operations, he remains formidable and controversial. Working simultaneously in Washington and abroad, we have confined ourselves to the turbulent years of his Secretaryship, from 1953 to 1959, and to the distinctive Dulles issues." - Authors' note.

Book John Foster Dulles

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Robinson Beal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book John Foster Dulles written by John Robinson Beal and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Limits of Intervention

Download or read book The Limits of Intervention written by Townsend Hoopes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far and away the most illuminating account we have of the people and policies that led the United States into the Vietnam catastrophe. . . .A significant contribution to the history of our times." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Book John Foster Dulles

Download or read book John Foster Dulles written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Foster Dulles was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations. Active in the field for decades, Dulles reflected and was a reflection of the tension that pervaded U.S. international conduct from its evolution as a global power in the early twentieth century through its emergence as the 'leader of the Free World' during the Cold War. His life and career embody the best and most troubling aspects of American foreign policy as it progressed toward international supremacy while swaying between altruism and self-interest. In this biography, Richard Immerman traces Dulles's path from his early days growing up in the parsonage of the First Presbyterian Church of Watertown, N.Y., through his years of amassing influence and power as an international business lawyer and adviser, to his service as President Eisenhower's secretary of state. This volume illuminates not only the history of modern U.S. foreign policy, but its search for a twentieth-century identity. Sophisticated yet accessible, John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy is an important resource for graduate and undergraduate courses in U.S. history and U.S. foreign relations.

Book JFK vs  Allen Dulles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Poulgrain
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-11-17
  • ISBN : 1510744800
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book JFK vs Allen Dulles written by Greg Poulgrain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in the assassination of JFK, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our nation’s longest-serving CIA director, often clashed over intelligence issues and national security. However, one such conflict has remained in the shadows until now. JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia takes reader to the vast archipelago 3350 miles wide where this secret showdown occurred. In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware of the gold, since Dulles had not informed Kennedy. Dulles planned a complicated and ruthless CIA regime-change strategy to seize control not only of Indonesia itself, but also of its vast resources, including the gold. This strategy included a push to start Malaysian Confrontation. Yet Kennedy's plan to visit Jakarta in early 1964 would have sunk Dulles' master plan, which included the destruction of the Indonesian communist party as a wedge to split Moscow and Beijing. Only an assassin's bullet put an end to Kennedy’s plan of peace. Did Allen Dulles arrange for JFK to be killed to save his plan and his gold? Was his coup for gold successful with JFK out of the picture? Using archival records as a basis, Greg Poulgrain adds word-of-mouth evidence from those people who were directly involved—such as Dean Rusk and others who worked with President Kennedy and Allen Dulles at the time; or the person who was with Michael Rockefeller when he mysteriously disappeared in West New Guinea during this whole affair.

Book Cold War Respite

    Book Details:
  • Author : Günter Bischof
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2000-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780807123706
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Cold War Respite written by Günter Bischof and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the midpoint of the “high” cold war, when most people in North America and Europe thought catastrophic nuclear onslaught was almost inevitable, an unprecedented and unrepeated event took place in Geneva in July 1955. The heads of state from the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France came together in an attempt at diplomatic dialogue, primarily over the questions of German unification, European security, and nuclear disarmament. Although the summit ended with no tangible results, its ramifications were extensive, and it provided the world with a brief repose from escalating East-West tension. In Cold War Respite twelve scholars writing from several national perspectives investigate in riveting detail how that event—examined only in passing until now—came about, why its “spirit” was so short-lived, and what its subsequent impact was on the development of the cold war. Making use of newly -declassified archives in the United States, France, Britain, and Russia, the authors provide some of the latest research and insights into early cold-war history as they track the crucial period from Stalin’s death in 1953 until the summit. They consider John Foster Dulles’s policy at Geneva and the meeting of the four foreign ministers that followed the summit. As the essayists attest, the psychological effects of the summit were of immense significance to the history of international relations and reveal the complexity and dynamism of foreign affairs during the decades following World War II. While some argue that the series of international crises beginning in 1958 and culminating in 1962 might have been averted if the Geneva conference had been pursued more eagerly, others argue that it is a credit to the summit that those events are studied today as examples of crisis management and not of nuclear war.

Book John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War

Download or read book John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

Book Overthrow

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  • Author : Stephen Kinzer
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-02-06
  • ISBN : 0805082409
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Overthrow written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.

Book John Foster Dulles  the Last Year     Foreword by Dwight D  Eisenhower

Download or read book John Foster Dulles the Last Year Foreword by Dwight D Eisenhower written by Eleanor Lansing DULLES and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World  the Flesh and the Devil

Download or read book The World the Flesh and the Devil written by J.D. Bernal and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about, and suggests the impact of these developments on society. Bernal presents a far-reaching vision of the future that encompasses space research and colonization, material sciences, genetic engineering, and the technological hive mind. In his view, it will be possible for the conditions of civilization to reach a state of materialist utopia. For all three realms—the world, the flesh, and the devil—Bernal attempted to map out the utmost limit of technoscientific progress, and found that there are almost no limits. With a new introduction by McKenzie Wark.