books.google.com - With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state. Acheson (1893-1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He...http://books.google.com/books/about/Present_at_the_creation.html?id=OirSz3Wtaa0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePresent at the creation