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.
- Author
- Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 864
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780684837710
- Characters
- Charles E. Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, John J. McCloy, Robert A. Lovett
- Genres
- history, biography, politics, business, leadership
- Release date
- 1997
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