Volume 21, Number 1 · February 7, 1974
The Uses of John Foster Dulles
By Garry Wills
The Devil and John Foster Dulles
by Townsend Hoopes
Little, Brown, 562 pp., $15.00
John Foster Dulles was sixty-five years old before he tasted real power. He had maintained, to that point, a sidling and dependent semi-fame, for no very good reason. From Wall Street he had vaguely advised—not well, but often: candidates, presidents, churches, countries. Author of two uplift books on peace. Presbyterian lay-divine at large. Dewey's dim eminence. Right-wing internationalist Republican among Democrats—everybody's favorite guy from the opposite camp. Few people liked him, including his children—his wife struck others as an oddity because she did. He had a Big Answer for the world's still-unasked questions, and was always hurrying off to tell someone in power what it was.
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