Kinzer asserts that “their reckless adventures palpably weakened U.S. He reveals that the two men often used their powers for unwise and unsavory purposes-organizing coups and undermining democracies, all in the name of resisting Soviet ambitions. While in government the Dulles brothers were perceived mostly as exemplars of American virtue, but Kinzer pulls the cloak off their dark side. As author Stephen Kinzer points out in this astute and sobering book, the Dulles men together formed “a nexus of power unmatched in U.S. Eisenhower’s worldview was deeply influenced by two brothers who played paramount roles in his two administrations-John Foster Dulles, his secretary of state from 1953 until 1959, and Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. In the 1950s President Dwight Eisenhower considered it America’s “destiny and duty” to contain the Soviet Union and the scourge of international communism. THE BROTHERS: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
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