DULLES, JOHN FOSTER

born Feb. 25, 1888, Washington, D.C. died May 24, 1959, Washington, D.C. U.S. secretary of state (195359) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was the architect of many major elements of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War with the Soviet Union after World War II. Additional reading John R. Beal, John Foster Dulles, rev. ed. (1959), a formal biography written by an admirer, a former State Department correspondent for Time magazine; Edward Weintal and Charles Bartlett, Facing the Brink (1967), a critical and intimate account of crisis diplomacy and management by presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and their secretaries of state; Richard Goold-Adams, John Foster Dulles: A Reappraisal (1962), a critical biography concluding that upon reevaluation Dulles' concepts and policies will rank higher than his methods of implementing them; Eleanor Lansing Dulles, John Foster Dulles: The Last Year (1963), a friendly biography by his sister, replete with anecdotal material.