Dean Rusk

Octavo, blue cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with slight edge-wear. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Judge Philip C. Jessup, with thanks for your help, Warren L. Cohen," on the front endpaper; accompanied by a letter from Cohen presenting Jessup with the volume and thanking him "for your insights which were the most valuable offered by any of those to whom I spoke of him." ---- The recipient, Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague and veteran U.S. diplomat, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then- Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. Cohen discussed Jessup's "alter ego" relationship with Acheson and role in state affairs often in "Dean Rusk," and thanked him in the Acknowledgments. A significant biographical study with a stellar provenance. …