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A collection of essays that represents an archivally based reassessment of Dulles' diplomacy and examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, it reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles' conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

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How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps Did America set out to become an empire And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Decla