![]() In author Stephen Kinzer's view, vanity, greed, religious zeal and the baleful concept of American exceptionalism were bred into the bones of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles. ![]() While making my way through this fluently written, ingeniously researched, thrillerish work of popular history, I wondered how the late Richard Condon, author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and aficionado of conspiracy theories, might have handled its central theme: A couple of well-born American brothers, the older one a dour Calvinist and the younger one a devilish libertine, get very rich as Wall Street lawyers, then simultaneously become secretary of state and CIA director and invent the Cold War, which they regard as a means of enriching the capitalists whose errand boys they have always been. ![]()
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