Lauren Turek

God’s Cold Warrior

History & Biography

“John Foster Dulles looms large in the pantheon of Cold War foreign policy leaders, yet the apparent space between his inner life and outer presentation have long rendered him an enigmatic figure. Wilsey’s warm and deeply researched volume offers an intimate portrait of Dulles, capturing the man in all of his contradictions and complexity. Blending spiritual and intellectual biography, Wilsey reveals much about Dulles’s internal world, teasing out the roots of his pragmatism in matters of faith as well as diplomacy, and highlighting the relationship Dulles saw between moral laws and the natural world. With this work, Wilsey has added tremendously to our understanding of the ideas and values that shaped Dulles’s worldview and thus US politics and foreign policy.”