John Watson Foster Dulles (May 20, 1913 – June 23, 2008) was an American scholar of Brazilian history.
He received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1937 and then joined the Bank of New York, where his father was a director.
[1] His first book, published in 1962, Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936, was the result of conversations with the Mexican president Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.
His works were criticized for having too much description and too little analysis, as well as for not mentioning his and his company's part in the political articulations during the João Goulart government.
[2] He died on June 23, 2008, at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.