The devil and John Foster Dulles / by Townsend Hoopes.

With hardcover

Notes: pp. 508-536; index: pp. 538-562

Cont.: In the beginning -- Princeton, the Hague, and Paris -- Struggle and success in Wall Street -- Response to world crisis -- Discovering the Russians -- Pleasures and perils of partisanship -- Japanese peace, Korean War -- "Victory" and the American temperament -- The partisan's return -- The new dispensation -- Policy beginnings (part one) -- Policy beginnings (part two) -- Massive retaliation and the new look -- "United action" in Indochina -- The Geneva negotiations, 1954 -- Vietnam : aftermath and prologue -- Ambiguity at Quemoy -- To the summit -- A gathering immobility -- The Middle East : prelude to crisis -- The fateful Aswan renege -- Cross-purposes and cardboard proposals -- The alliance in peril -- Applying principle -- On the defensive -- A time of twilight -- Radical nationalism in the Middle East -- Reprise at Quemoy -- Berlin : the last crisis -- Death and assessment.