Historian Kenneth Weisbrode revealsfor the first time, warts and allthe insider’s story of such well-known figures as Dean Acheson, W. Averell Harriman, and Henry Kissinger. It is the story of how and why the State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs (EUR)the mother bureau” as it was called, the nerve center of the Atlanticistsrose to become the U.S. government’s preeminent foreign policy office.
In today’s fractious world, The Atlantic Century is both timely and telling.