The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas
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Author: Evan Thomas, Walter IsaacsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-04
ISBN: 0684837714
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Summary of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, "The Wise Men" introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.Political Books
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