Dean Acheson
Brinkley's first book was "Jean Monnet: The Path to European Unity" (1992). His second was "Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years" (1992). He then co-edited a monograph series with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and William vanden Heuvel in the 1990s. Brinkley also edited a volume on "Dean Acheson and the Making of US Foreign Policy" with Paul H. Nitze (1993). In 1999, he published "The Unfinished Presidency" about Jimmy Carter's active and influential post-presidency.