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Having recently read David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard" about Allen Dulles and the early decades of the CIA, I found Kinzer's dual biography of Allen and his older brother John Foster Dulles a slightly different but equally deep look at the creation of America's post-WWII global foreign policy of interference - both overt and covert - in the governments and politics of other countries. The Dulles, and the inner circle of economic and political power of which they were leading figures, helped lead the United States into the Cold War mentality that insisted that there were no "neutral" countries: each had to choose sides between "Communists" and "the Western alliance" and suffer the consequences. The results, as we now recognize, were a series of corrupt dictatorships, economic destruction, and military coups in places like Indonesia, Guatemala, Iran, the Congo, with long term damage to the countries and their people. Not a very productive or constructive foreign policy, and leading to decisions like the American war in Vietnam.