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  • The Brothers

  • John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
  • Auteur(s): Stephen Kinzer
  • Narrateur(s): David Cochran Heath
  • Durée: 13 h et 28 min
  • 4,6 out of 5 stars (29 évaluations)

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The Brothers

Auteur(s): Stephen Kinzer
Narrateur(s): David Cochran Heath
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A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world

During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.

John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the backdrop ofAmerican culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?

The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies - many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world.

Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries such as Cuba and Iran.

The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world.

©2013 Stephen Kinzer

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Frightening and insightful

Even though this book is over 10 years old, it offers insights into the American psyche that is so relevant today. The narrow insular focus that framed U.S. foreign policy in the 50s is still present today. The Dulles/Eisenhower times hid multiple disasters that still reverberate today and set in motion the Vietnam horror. The book lays out very clearly the mindset behind those decisions and in the end turns the focus directly toward the American population that was manipulated and frightened by the Soviet bogeyman. An administration of ignorance promoting, but for a few voices, an ignorant narrative towards an ignorant population.

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indepth

this is such a great deep dive into these two polarizing characters that shaped our world.

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Great history

Absolutely essential to understanding modern geopolitics. These two guys spent decades directing American foreign policy and both their success' and failures gave us countless modern catastrophes.

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