Editing Dean Acheson (section)

==Further reading==
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* "Dean Gooderham Acheson." ''Dictionary of American Biography'' (1994) [https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310019118/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=e2a5ed79 online]

* Beisner, Robert L.  ''Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War'' (Oxford University Press,  2006), the standard scholarly biography.
**Thomas Maddux et al. "Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War Roundtable" H-DIPLO (March 14, 2007)  five scholars discuss the book by Robert Beisner and he responds. [https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Beisner-AchesonRoundtable.pdf  online]

* Beisner, Robert L. [https://archive.org/download/patternsofperildeanachesonjoinsthecoldwarriors1945-46byrobertl.beisnerdiplomatic/Patterns%20of%20Peril%20-%20Dean%20Acheson%20Joins%20the%20Cold%20Warriors%2C%201945%E2%80%9346%2C%20by%20Robert%20L.%20Beisner%20%28Diplomatic%20History%2C%20Vol.%2020%2C%20No.%203%2C%20Summer%201996%29%2C%20pp.%20321-355.pdf "Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945–46]". ''[[Diplomatic History]]'', 20#3 (1996), pp. 321–355. {{ISSN|0145-2096}}.
* Beisner, Robert L. [https://archive.org/download/shafrpresidentialaddressthesecretarythespyandthesagedeanachesonalgerhissandgeorg/SHAFR%20Presidential%20Address%20-%20The%20Secretary%2C%20the%20Spy%2C%20and%20the%20Sage%20Dean%20Acheson%2C%20Alger%20Hiss%2C%20and%20George%20Kennan%2C%20by%20Robert%20L.%20Beisner%20%28Diplomatic%20History%2C%20Vol.%2027%2C%20No.%201%2C%20January%202003%29%2C%20pp.%201-14.pdf “SHAFR Presidential Address: The Secretary, the Spy, and the Sage Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, and George Kennan”]. ''[[Diplomatic History]]'', Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 1–14.
* [[Douglas Brinkley|Brinkley, Douglas]]. ''Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71''. (1992) 429 pages. 

* [[Douglas Brinkley|Brinkley, Douglas]], ed. ''Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy''. (1993) 271 pages. [https://archive.org/details/deanachesonmakin0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up online]
* [[Douglas Brinkley|Brinkley, Douglas]]. [https://archive.org/download/deanachesonandthespecialrelationshipthewestpointspeechofdecember1962bydouglasbri/Dean%20Acheson%20and%20the%20%27Special%20Relationship%27%20-%20The%20West%20Point%20Speech%20of%20December%201962%2C%20by%20Douglas%20Brinkley%20%28The%20Historical%20Journal%2C%20Vol.%2033%2C%20No.%203%2C%20September%201990%29%2C%20pp.%20599-608.pdf “Dean Acheson and the 'Special Relationship': The West Point Speech of December 1962”]. ''[[The Historical Journal]]'', 33#3 (September 1990), pp. 599–608.
* [[James Chace|Chace, James]]. ''Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World''. ([[Harvard University Press]], 1998), {{ISBN|0-674-00081-1}}. [ Fletcher, Luke. "The Collapse of the Western World: Acheson, Nitze, and the NSC 68/Rearmament Decision." ''[[Diplomatic History]]'', 40#4 (2016), pp. 750–777.
* Frazier, Robert. "Acheson and the Formulation of the Truman Doctrine". ''[[Journal of Modern Greek Studies]]'', Vol. 17, No. 2 (1999), pp. 229–251. {{ISSN|0738-1727}} [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_modern_greek_studies/v017/17.2frazier.html in Project Muse]
* Garson, Robert. ''The United States and China since 1949: A Troubled Affair''. [[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]], Madison (1994), pp. 27–33 {{ISBN|0-8386-3610-1}}
* Goulden, Joseph C. ''The Superlawyers: The Small and Powerful World of the Great Washington Law Firms''. (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1971)
* Harper, John Lamberton. ''American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson''. [[Cambridge University Press]] (1994), 378 pages.
* Hopkins, Michael F. "President Harry Truman's Secretaries of State: Stettinius, Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson." ''[[Journal of Transatlantic Studies]]'', 6#3 (2008), pp. 290–304.
* Hopkins, Michael F. ''Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 289 pages. 

* Hopkins, Michael F. "Dean Acheson, Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy." in ''Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order'' (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017).
* [[Walter Isaacson|Isaacson, Walter]], and [[Evan Thomas]]. ''[[The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made]]''. (1997), 864 pages. – Covers Acheson and colleagues [[Charles E. Bohlen]], [[W. Averell Harriman]], [[George Kennan]], [[Robert A. Lovett|Robert Lovett]], and [[John J. McCloy]]. [ Leffler, Melvyn P. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888505 "Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945–1952"]. ''[[Journal of American History]]'', 71#4 (1985), pp. 807–825.
* McGlothlen, Ronald L. ''Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US Foreign Policy in Asia'' (1993) [https://archive.org/details/controllingwaves0000mcgl online]
* McLellan, David S. ''Dean Acheson: The State Department Years''. (New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1976), 466 pages. [https://archive.org/details/deanachesonstate0000mcle online]
* McMahon, Robert J. ''Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order'' (Washington: Potomac, 2009), 257 pages. 

* McNay, John T. ''Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy'' (2001) [https://archive.org/details/achesonempirebri00mcna/page/n5/mode/2up online]
* {{cite journal |last=Matray |first=James I. |title=Dean Acheson's National Press Club Speech Reexamined |journal=Journal of Conflict Studies |volume=22#1 |year=2002 |pages=28–55 }}
* Merrill, Dennis. "The Truman Doctrine: Containing Communism and Modernity". ''[[Presidential Studies Quarterly]]'', 36#1 (2006), pp. 27–37.[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.00284.x online]
* Offner, Arnold A. "'Another Such Victory': President Truman, American Foreign Policy, and the Cold War". ''[[Diplomatic History]]'', 23#2 (1999), pp. 127–155.
* Offner, Arnold A. ''Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War''. (2002) 640 pages. – Highly negative. 

* Perlmutter, Oscar William. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1405869 "The 'Neo-Realism' of Dean Acheson"]. ''[[The Review of Politics]]'', 26#1 (January 1964), pp. 100–123.
* Perlmutter, Oscar William. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/445090 "Acheson and the Diplomacy of World War II"]. ''[[The Western Political Quarterly]]'', 14#4 (December 1961), pp. 896–911.
* Purifoy, Lewis McCarroll. ''Harry Truman's China Policy''. (New York: Franklin Watts, 1976), pp. 125–150. {{ISBN|0-531-05386-5}}.
* Smith, Gaddis. ''Dean Acheson'' (1972), major scholarly biography [https://archive.org/details/americansecretar16ferr/page/n11/mode/2up online]
* Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. ''The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism''. (2006) 
* Steil, Benn. ''The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War'' (2018) 608pp. 
* Stupak, Ronald J. ''The shaping of foreign policy; the role of the Secretary of State as seen by Dean Acheson'' (1969) [https://archive.org/details/shapingofforeign00stup online]
* Wells, Samuel F. "Dean Acheson Leads The Defense Of Europe." in ''Fearing the Worst'' (Columbia UP, 2019). 269-303.