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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer
4.06 AVERAGE
58 reviews for:
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer
4.06 AVERAGE
These are some real sick people we’re dealing with here folks, some real sick people
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I honestly don't know why I finished it. Is at its best when it's an actual biography of the subjects by spends about 70% of the time on random digressions of various left wing bugaboos. The author has done essentially zero primary source research and large swaths of this are quotes from newspaper articles and cherry picked tidbits of info. He also makes insane statements about how people thought or felt with zero evidence to back it up. The part focusing on the weird quirks and upbringing of the Dulles Brothers and how it impacted their worldview was pretty good, but I get the feeling that the author got bored of doing actual research and just rehashed other things he's written on
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Rename Dulles airport asap
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An illumination of two largely forgotten figures who played a large role in shaping the Cold War. Also a fascinating view into the upper-crust oddballs, and some of these guys were truly strange, who formed the early years of the CIA and the American Empire.
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles who was Secretary of State under Eisenhower and Allen Dulles who was the director of the CIA at the same time. The Dulles brothers saw international relations within a religious and moral framework which led them to advocate policies that attempted to remove foreign leaders whom they perceived as threats to U.S. security and support friendly regimes regardless of the way those governments treated their populations. Kinzer argues that, as a result, countries such as the Congo and Guatemala were pushed into years of violence, the Vietnam War was inevitable, and hostile relations were created with numerous countries that lasted for decades. Let a dozen people read this book and there will probably be a dozen reactions and opinions. But there will definitely be a breakout of a vigorous debate.