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Bush = Acheson?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 11, 2006 CommentIf you want to read a piece of first-rate writing, take a look at Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis's review of Robert Beisner's biography of Dean Acheson in the New Republic. Gaddis agrees with Beisner's argument that Acheson was the real architect of Harry Truman's Cold War policy. But he also recognizes Acheson's flaws. He makes much (as I did in my 1990 book Our Country) of Acheson's statement in January 1950 that "I will not turn my back on Alger Hiss"–just after the government of which Acheson was a part had convicted Hiss on charges of perjury for denying that he was a Soviet spy.
