"Dean Gooderham Acheson." Dictionary of American Biography (1994) online Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. (New York: OUP USA, 2006), 800 pages; a standard scholarly biography. online Beisner, Robert L. "Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945–46". Diplomatic History, 20#3 (1996), pp. 321–355. . Beisner, Robert L. “SHAFR Presidential Address: The Secretary, the Spy, and the Sage Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, and George Kennan”. Diplomatic History, Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 1–14. Brinkley, Douglas. Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71. (1992) 429 pages. online Brinkley, Douglas, ed. Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy. (1993) 271 pages. online Brinkley, Douglas. “Dean Acheson and the 'Special Relationship': The West Point Speech of December 1962”. The Historical Journal, 33#3 (September 1990), pp. 599–608. Chace, James. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World. (Harvard University Press, 1998), . online Fletcher, Luke. "The Collapse of the Western World: Acheson, Nitze, and the NSC 68/Rearmament Decision." Diplomatic History, 40#4 (2016), pp. 750–777. Frazier, Robert. "Acheson and the Formulation of the Truman Doctrine". Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1999), pp. 229–251. in Project Muse Garson, Robert. The United States and China since 1949: A Troubled Affair. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison (1994), pp. 27–33 Goulden, Joseph C. The Superlawyers: The Small and Powerful World of the Great Washington Law Firms. (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1971) Harper, John Lamberton. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson. Cambridge University Press (1994), 378 pages. Hopkins, Michael F. "President Harry Truman's Secretaries of State: Stettinius, Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson." Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 6#3 (2008), pp. 290–304. Hopkins, Michael F. Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 289 pages. excerpt Hopkins, Michael F. "Dean Acheson, Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy." in Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017). Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. (1997), 864 pages. – Covers Acheson and colleagues Charles E. Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, and John J. McCloy. online Leffler, Melvyn P. "Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945–1952". Journal of American History, 71#4 (1985), pp. 807–825. McGlothlen, Ronald L. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US Foreign Policy in Asia (1993) online McLellan, David S. Dean Acheson: The State Department Years. (New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1976), 466 pages. online McMahon, Robert J. Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order (Washington: Potomac, 2009), 257 pages. online McNay, John T. Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy (2001) online Merrill, Dennis. "The Truman Doctrine: Containing Communism and Modernity". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36#1 (2006), pp. 27–37.online Offner, Arnold A. "'Another Such Victory': President Truman, American Foreign Policy, and the Cold War". Diplomatic History, 23#2 (1999), pp. 127–155. Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War. (2002) 640 pages. – Highly negative. excerpts and text search Perlmutter, Oscar William. "The 'Neo-Realism' of Dean Acheson". The Review of Politics, 26#1 (January 1964), pp. 100–123. Perlmutter, Oscar William. "Acheson and the Diplomacy of World War II". The Western Political Quarterly, 14#4 (December 1961), pp. 896–911. Purifoy, Lewis McCarroll. Harry Truman's China Policy. (New York: Franklin Watts, 1976), pp. 125–150. . Smith, Gaddis. Dean Acheson (1972), major scholarly biography online Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. (2006) excerpt Steil, Benn. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (2018) 608pp. excerpt Stupak, Ronald J. The shaping of foreign policy; the role of the Secretary of State as seen by Dean Acheson (1969) online Wells, Samuel F. "Dean Acheson Leads The Defense Of Europe." in Fearing the Worst (Columbia UP, 2019). 269-303.
"Dean Gooderham Acheson." Dictionary of American Biography (1994) online Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. (New York: OUP USA, 2006), 800 pages; a standard scholarly biography. online Beisner, Robert L. "Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945–46". Diplomatic History, 20#3 (1996), pp. 321–355. . Beisner, Robert L. “SHAFR Presidential Address: The Secretary, the Spy, and the Sage Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, and George Kennan”. Diplomatic History, Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 1–14. Brinkley, Douglas. Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71. (1992) 429 pages. online Brinkley, Douglas, ed. Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy. (1993) 271 pages. online Brinkley, Douglas. “Dean Acheson and the 'Special Relationship': The West Point Speech of December 1962”. The Historical Journal, 33#3 (September 1990), pp. 599–608. Chace, James. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World. (Harvard University Press, 1998), . online Fletcher, Luke. "The Collapse of the Western World: Acheson, Nitze, and the NSC 68/Rearmament Decision." Diplomatic History, 40#4 (2016), pp. 750–777. Frazier, Robert. "Acheson and the Formulation of the Truman Doctrine". Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1999), pp. 229–251. in Project Muse Garson, Robert. The United States and China since 1949: A Troubled Affair. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison (1994), pp. 27–33 Goulden, Joseph C. The Superlawyers: The Small and Powerful World of the Great Washington Law Firms. (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1971) Harper, John Lamberton. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson. Cambridge University Press (1994), 378 pages. Hopkins, Michael F. "President Harry Truman's Secretaries of State: Stettinius, Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson." Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 6#3 (2008), pp. 290–304. Hopkins, Michael F. Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 289 pages. excerpt Hopkins, Michael F. "Dean Acheson Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy." in Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017). Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. (1997), 864 pages. – Covers Acheson and colleagues Charles E. Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, and John J. McCloy. online Leffler, Melvyn P. "Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945–1952". Journal of American History, 71#4 (1985), pp. 807–825. McGlothlen, Ronald L. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US Foreign Policy in Asia (1993) online McLellan, David S. Dean Acheson: The State Department Years. (New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1976), 466 pages. online McMahon, Robert J. Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order (Washington: Potomac, 2009), 257 pages. online McNay, John T. Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy (2001) online Merrill, Dennis. "The Truman Doctrine: Containing Communism and Modernity". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36#1 (2006), pp. 27–37.online Offner, Arnold A. "'Another Such Victory': President Truman, American Foreign Policy, and the Cold War". Diplomatic History, 23#2 (1999), pp. 127–155. Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War. (2002) 640 pages. – Highly negative. excerpts and text search Perlmutter, Oscar William. "The 'Neo-Realism' of Dean Acheson". The Review of Politics, 26#1 (January 1964), pp. 100–123. Perlmutter, Oscar William. "Acheson and the Diplomacy of World War II". The Western Political Quarterly, 14#4 (December 1961), pp. 896–911. Purifoy, Lewis McCarroll. Harry Truman's China Policy. (New York: Franklin Watts, 1976), pp. 125–150. . Smith, Gaddis. Dean Acheson (1972), major scholarly biography online Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. (2006) excerpt Steil, Benn. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (2018) 608pp. excerpt Stupak, Ronald J. The shaping of foreign policy; the role of the Secretary of State as seen by Dean Acheson (1969) online Wells, Samuel F. "Dean Acheson Leads The Defense Of Europe." in Fearing the Worst (Columbia UP, 2019). 269-303.