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Author | Dean Acheson |
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Genre | history |
Publisher | W.W. Norton |
Publication date | 1969 |
Publication place | US |
Pages | 798 |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History |
ISBN | 9780393304121 |
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department [1] is a memoir by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, published by W. W. Norton in 1969, which won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2] Acheson explained the title: Following World War II, the US administration faced a task "just a bit less formidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis: That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material without blowing the whole to pieces in the process." [3]