Born into Eastern establishment privilege, these two men strode into the uppermost strata of the U.S. government with a virulent anti-communist bent that infused US foreign policy during the Cold War.

Gordon Goldstein is the author of "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam." Stephen Kinzer's "The Brothers" tells the story of two siblings who achieved remarkable ...

The Eisenhower era is often seen as a placid time, presided over by a president who shunned wars and had a healthy skepticism about big military expenditures. But as Stephen Kinzer’s sparkling new ...

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 ...

A former longtime New York Times reporter, Stephen Kinzer teaches journalism and foreign policy at Boston University. John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were the forefathers of using covert ...

In 1898, the United States "suddenly found itself with the chance to rule faraway lands," Stephen Kinzer writes in his new book. "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. BY STEPHEN KINZER. Times Books, 2013, ...

In 1953, for the first and only time in history, two brothers were appointed to head the overt and covert sides of American foreign policy. President Dwight Eisenhower appointed John Foster Dulles ...