| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. By Robert L. Beisner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 800 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0- 19-504578-9.)
When colleagues suggested to Winston Churchill that history might not be kind to the wartime prime minister, he is said to have responded: "History will be kind to me for I shall write it." He was correct. His multivolume work on World War II influenced the historiography for more than a generation of historians. Dean Acheson's Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir, Present at the Creation (1969), has had a similar impact on the perception of the secretary of state's role in the early Cold War.	1
Studies of Acheson have generally closely followed his narrative, adopted his assumptions, and expressed his understandings of international problems. To a great extent, that is certainly true of Robert L. Beisner's new book. Beisner is sympathetic to Acheson and expresses a positive opinion of his diplomatic design.	. . .

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