Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known

By Dean Acheson

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known is a 1961 memoir by Dean Acheson, the former US secretary of state. Acheson draws portraits of statesmen he worked with after the Second World War, including Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi and George C. Marshall.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “What books are on your night stand? ... Right now, I have three: a collection of columns by the great journalist Walter Lippmann, from the period around World War I (edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); Dean Acheson's "Sketches From Life of Men I Have Known," the former secretary of state's portraits of some of his contemporaries; and W. H. Auden's "Collected Poems." They're all wonderfully written, and I can put any of them down after 15 minutes, sated and ready for bed.”