Review: United States: In the Stream of History
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300431 |
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
-
probity,
imagination,
a
sense
of
ings
-
saying
out
loud
what
others
the
justice
of
his
cause,
not
to men-
muttered under
their
breath.
tion
a
wonderful
gift
of
ironic
Acheson
felt
he
was
entitled,
draw-
expression.
Acheson,
contemplat-
ing on
a
lifetime
of
familiarity
ing
Chace's
work,
might
have
said
with Canada.
It
is
too
bad
that
this
that
like
the
curate's
egg
it
is
good
element
of
Acheson,
very
Canadi-
in
parts: the
life
of
the
law,
the
con-
an,
is
lost
in
this
slightly myopic
fused
political
world
of
1940s
book.
Washington, the
sense
of
the
rush
of
events
between
1945
and
1953,
IN
THE
STREAM
OF
HISTORY
in
which
Acheson
relied
on
his
Shaping
foreign
policy
for
a
new
era
instincts
to act
and
react
to
situa-
Warren
Christopher
tions
unimaginable
when
he
was
a
Stanford:
Stanford
University
Press,
younger
man.
1998,
xvii,
586
pp,
US$60.00
cloth,
On
the
other
side,
it
is
fair
to
say US$22.95
paper
that
Chace
has
no
sense
of
Canada
and
that
Acheson
did.
A
typically
The
greatest
surprise
about
this
Canadian
parochial
carping?
Per-
book
is
that
Stanford
published
it.
haps.
Yet
Canada, what
it
once
was,
This
is
a
collection
of
the
speeches
and what
it
became
were
significant
of
the
least
charismatic
American
to
Acheson.
It
was
a
place he
had
secretary
of
state
in
living
memory,
fortuitously
escaped
from,
but
to
all
the
monologues
faithfully
gener-
which
he
was
drawn.
(It
was also,
as
ated
by
his
speechwriters
in
the
Chace notes
very
much
in
passing,
fudge
factory.
It
has
been
greeted
where
the
money
came
from.)
with
respect
in
its
country
of
origin.
Acheson
believed
that
Canada,
It
will
decorate
respectable
shelves
which held
a
not
undignified
place
in
large
reference
libraries.
It
will
in
an
older
empire,
should
accom-
not
be
read.
modate
itself
to
the
new,
and
he
lost
no
time
in
pointing out
to
Macken-
zie
King,
in
1945,
the
logic
of
the
situation.
Acheson
did
not
much
like
Canada's
later
course,
and
disap-
proved
of
the
canting
Methodism
of
his
contemporary,
Lester
B.
Pearson.
Almost
alone
among
prominent
Americans,
Acheson
drew
attention
to
Canadian
fail-
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