The Atlantic Century is the first major historical study to re-examine the American-European partnership with an emphasis on the personalities behind the policy. Our strong system of European alliances built during the last century did not happen serendipitously. It was carefully constructed and cemented by a network of diplomats and politicians, who imagined, built, and sustained a new international system. In their vision, America and Europe were part of a single cooperative transatlantic community not rivals or one anothers periodic savior, as they had been during two world wars.Historian Kenneth Weisbrode revealsfor the first time, warts and allthe insiders story of such well-known figures as Dean Acheson, W. Averell Harriman, and Henry Kissinger. It is the story of how and why the State Departments Bureau of European Affairs (EUR)the mother bureau as it was called, the nerve center of the Atlanticistsrose to become the U.S. governments preeminent foreign policy office.In todays fractious world, The Atlantic Century is both timely and telling.