Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order

Robert J. McMahon, Washington, DC, Potomac Books, , xii + pp. Robert McMahon's accessible biography of Dean Acheson is the first.
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Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order.

McMahon's first chapter covers Acheson's life from birth in to his return to the State Department in February McMahon argues that although Acheson did not come from "an archetypical Eastern Establishment, ruling elite family," his youth and schooling put him on a similar path p. The son of an Episcopalian minister who had recently emigrated from Canada, Dean Acheson grew up in a middle-class home in Connecticut before shipping off to boarding school at age nine.

Acheson considered his childhood idyllic, a lost paradise that formed his foundation as a person. As McMahon describes it, Acheson's attitude toward his childhood was part of his "lifelong tendency to place himself, his experiences, and the outlook of his social class at the very epicenter of the world" p. This tendency shaped Acheson's beliefs both about his own role, as well as his conviction for the role the United States should play in the world.

Acheson was an indifferent student at Groton and Yale, concerned more about enjoying himself than about studies. Upon entering Harvard Law School in , Acheson finally began to take education and life more seriously.

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One of the key factors in this change, according to McMahon, was the first of Acheson's mentors: Frankfurter was a professor at Harvard Law who took Acheson under his wing and both encouraged his abilities and facilitated his career. From these three men, two of whom Frankfurter and Holmes became personal friends, Acheson developed the self-confidence and the belief system that guided his future career. Sign In Forgot password? Don't have an account? Organization of American Historians members Sign in via society site.

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