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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Author:Dean Acheson
Country:US
Genre:history
Publisher:W.W. Norton
Pub Date:1969
Pages:798
Awards:Pulitzer Prize for History
Isbn:9780393304121

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department[1] is a memoir by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, published by W. W. Norton in 1969, which won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2] Acheson explained the title: Following World War II, the US administration faced a task "just a bit less formidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis: That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material without blowing the whole to pieces in the process."[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books/about/Present_at_the_Creation.html?id=jt9QuAAACAAJ books.google.com
  2. Web site: Order by coercion; Post-war American history . https://web.archive.org/web/20160409060420/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-149997270.html . dead . April 9, 2016 . August 26, 2006 . The Economist . December 9, 2012.
  3. Acheson, Dean (1969). "Apologia," Present at Creation: My Years in the State Department, (New York: W. W. Norton), https://archive.org/details/presentatcreatio0000unse/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater

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