The other leaders on the list were nationalists who campaigned for their country's independence.
Ho Chi Minh and Castro espoused left-wing politics. The book mentions "six monsters" that the "Dulles brothers believed had to be brought down": Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Sukarno in Indonesia, Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, and Fidel Castro in Cuba. The brothers had a significant effect on the United States foreign policy and global conflicts. Kinzer explains how the actions of the Dulles brothers aimed at removing world leaders whom they considered dangerous to the American interests. In this way, some points of their personal life are provided: Foster was a devoted husband while Allen was an unfaithful husband. The book's first several chapters give information about the family background, childhoods, and college educations of the two brothers. The book mentions that Dulles play a vital role in leading the US into the Vietnam War, and assisting to overthrow cold war governments such as Guatemala, Iran, the Congo, and Indonesia. It was for the first and only time in history. President Dwight Eisenhower gave the position of secretary of state to John Foster Dulles and the position of director of the CIA to Allen Dulles in 1953.
It has been described as "a riveting chronicle of government-sanctioned murder, casual elimination of “inconvenient” regimes, relentless prioritization of American corporate interests and cynical arrogance on the part of two men who were once among the most powerful in the world." Kinzer traces how the activity of Dulles brothers "helped set off some of the world's most profound long-term crises." It is a based on secondary sources. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War is a 2013 book by the New York Times journalist and historian, Stephen Kinzer.
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