SOURCE: "Will the Real Dulles Please Stand Up," in International Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter, 1974-75, pp. 34-44.

In the following essay, Holsti evaluates the largely negative assessment of Dulles presented in Townsend Hoopes's The Devil and John Foster Dulles, as well as other contemporary accounts, by comparing Dulles's record as secretary of state to that of Henry Kissinger.

Townsend Hoopes' The Devil and John Foster Dulles is the latest addition to a growing literature on the late secretary of state. From this bibliography the interested reader can select a wide variety of interpretations. At the most favourable end of the scale we find a biography by David and Deane Heller,¹ who portray find a as an heroic figure manning the ramparts of freedom. The book is unburdened by serious analysis or critical assessment of Dulles' diplomacy. Except for its publication after Dulles' death it might be mistaken for...