TY - SOUND AU - Kinzer,Stephen AU - Heath,David Cochran ED - Blackstone Audio, Inc. TI - The brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret World War SN - 1482928310 (library ed.) PY - 2013/// CY - [Ashland, OR] PB - Blackstone Audio, Inc. KW - Dulles, Allen, KW - Dulles, John Foster, KW - United States KW - Central Intelligence Agency KW - Officials and employees KW - Biography KW - Cabinet officers KW - Intelligence service KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Spies KW - Statesmen KW - Foreign relations KW - 1953-1961 KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft N1 - "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container; Compact discs; Duration: 13:30:00; Title from container; Read by David Cochran Heath N2 - During 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. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen, was director of the CIA. This book places their extraordinary lives against the backdrop of American culture and history and asks: Why does the United States behave as it does? Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries such as Cuba and Iran ER -