American political history is filled with famous brothers. The Kennedys. The Bushes. The Kochs. In “The Brothers,” author and veteran New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer casts the spotlight on John ...

Gordon Goldstein is the author of "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam." Stephen Kinzer's "The Brothers" tells the story of two siblings who achieved remarkable ...

The Eisenhower era is often seen as a placid time, presided over by a president who shunned wars and had a healthy skepticism about big military expenditures. But as Stephen Kinzer’s sparkling new ...

A former longtime New York Times reporter, Stephen Kinzer teaches journalism and foreign policy at Boston University. John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were the forefathers of using covert ...

While making my way through this fluently written, ingeniously researched, thrillerish work of popular history, I wondered how the late Richard Condon, author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. BY STEPHEN KINZER. Times Books, 2013, ...

A new book takes us inside some of the decisions made during the height of the Cold War, when brothers John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were secretary of state and director of the Central ...

Born into Eastern establishment privilege, these two men strode into the uppermost strata of the U.S. government with a virulent anti-communist bent that infused US foreign policy during the Cold War.