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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 864
  • 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