Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the

Brought up on a farm in Georgia, Rusk won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, entered the state department after World War II, became President of the Rockefeller F

Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democrati