PRESENT AT THE CREATION - My Years in the State Department

New York: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; Contents clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very good dustjacket [retains "Special Price Until Dec. 31, 1969; 12.50"]. Inscribed and SIGNED on ffep: "To / Kermit Roosevelt / with the deep affection / and high regard of his / friend and former colleague / Dean Acheson" Roosevelt has laid in a few slips of paper with brief notes, e.g., "Acheson / Harriman / Iran File" especially in Chapter of "Double Trouble in Iran. This memoir by Dean Acheson, who served as the Secretary of State under President Truman from 1949 to 1953, covers the major events and decisions of Acheson's tenure, such as the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the NATO alliance, and the Cold War. Acheson also reflects on his personal and professional relationships with Truman, Churchill, Stalin, and other world leaders. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1970. The Agreement for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration founding document was signed by 44 countries in the White House in Washington on 9 November 1943. FDR appointed Acheson to the Central Committee of UNRRA where Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. worked with him in the 1940s. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson set the Foreign policy of the Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was Truman's main foreign policy advisor 1945-1947, especially regarding the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After 1949 Acheson came under partisan political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China. As a private citizen in 1968 he counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), a strategic advisory group. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. Assigned to Egypt, Roosevelt impressed his colleagues with Project FF, which encouraged the Free Officers Movement to carry out a coup d'état in 1952, and Roosevelt developed close CIA links to the new leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Hugh Wilford: "[Roosevelt Jr.] had this notion of America forming an alliance with the Arab countries as they emerged from under the sway of Britain and France. He was very concerned with backing Arab nationalists in the region. He saw that as the best way of keeping it within the American orbit, as the Cold War was gathering momentum...." The Eisenhower administration, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was initially quite sympathetic towards the Arabist agenda of Roosevelt's and his colleagues and willing to oppose Middle Eastern regimes seen "as backing the Soviet Union rather than the U.S." In discussing Roosevelt's role, Wilford describes him as being among "the most important intelligence officers of their generation in the Middle East." ; Signed by Author .