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Author: Dean Acheson

📘 Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson

"As autobiography (this book) is enthralling, as history indispensable, as a manual on government and diplomacy invaluable". -- Wallace Carroll, New York Times Book Review.

First publish date: 1969

Authors: Dean Acheson

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