Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Present at the Creation, Acheson...
NONFICTION 1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Reuben (2) 2. The Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss (1) 3. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (3) 4. Present at the Creation, Acheson (4) 5. The Graham Kerr Cookbook (7) 6. In Someone's Shadow, McKuen (6) 7. The American Heritage Dictionary (5) 8. The Collapse of the Third Republic, Shirer (8) 9. Culture and Commitment, Mead 10. Love and Will...
...that we were wrong," Conant said. "When we made the recommendation, we thought there was a very small chance that the bomb would work. A new development [introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...
Womack's book is about Emiliano Zapata, a guerrilla leader and agrarian reformer of the 1910-1920 period in Mexico. Other contenders in the History and Biography category are Dean Acheson's Present at the Creation and Townsend Hoopes's The Limits of Intervention...
...Present at the Creation, Acheson...