John Foster Dulles
Apostle of American Empire
$117.68
- Hardcover
424 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2026
Summary
A compelling biography of John Foster Dulles, one of the most complex and underexamined architects of US foreign policy.
John Foster Dulles is a towering yet misunderstood figure in American and international history. Best known as secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the namesake for the Dulles airport, he has long been cast as a Cold War hardliner—moralizing, rigid, and ready to meet Soviet threats with nuclear force. Yet this view, while enduring, l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421454016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421454017 |
| Author: | Bevan Sewell |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Mr. Sewell is first-rate on the development of Dulles’s foreign-policy philosophy and shows him to be a far more subtle thinker than is often understood… provides new insights into the mind of a critical figure in the history of the Cold War, and it holds lessons for today.
—Wall Street Journal
[A] smart and worldly evaluation.
—Open Letters Review
Bevan Sewell’s recounting of Dulles’s life and career does little to restore faith in any sort of innate or learned American talent for keeping peace… Sewell nevertheless labours to present a livelier, more reflective side to the well-born, deeply orthodox Christian son of a Presbyterian minister.
—The Spectator
Bevan Sewell
Bevan Sewell is an associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham. He is a former editor of the Journal of American Studies and the author of The US and Latin America: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Economic Diplomacy in the Cold War.
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