Taken from The Brothers by John Ketwig (reviewer):
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
by Stephen Kinzer
(St. Martin's Griffin, 2013)
In 2016, I reviewed a book titled The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. A biography of Allen Dulles, that book shined a bright and powerful light on America's foreign policies and history since the end of World War II. I wrote that that book was "a dark and troubling history of America's post-World War II subtle and insidious turn away from Democracy and the concept of one man/one vote to a secretive and deadly environment of manipulations and assassinations that became the Cold War, and perhaps even more." Former VVAW member and author of an array of books about that era, the late John Prados, told me The Brothers was an even better book, as the Dulles brothers worked together to steer America's foreign policies away from any cooperation with communists, leftists, or progressives anywhere in the world.... Read More