1. For Acheson’s views of the origins of the Cold War, see DGA, “Creation.” See also Gaddis Smith, Dean Acheson (New York, 1972);
2. David S. McLellan, Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (New York, 1976);
3. Ronald Stupak, The Shaping of Foreign Policy: The Role of the Secretary of State as Seen by Dean Acheson (Cleveland, 1969);
4. Oscar Perlmutter, “Acheson and Foreign Policy: A Case Study of the Conduct of Foreign Affairs in a Mass Democracy,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1959;
5. and Jeffrey Talley Salmon, “The Statesmanship of Dean Acheson,” Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1985.