
He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?

In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's worldĭuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.
