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Simon & Schuster, June 1997
Trade Paperback, 864 pages
ISBN-10: 0684837714
ISBN-13: 9780684837710
Description
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.
The Boston GlobeA wealth of new information and insights on the people and events that shaped the first four decades of the Cold War.
Robert A. Caroauthor of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonJournalism at the heights! Scintillating....Must be read if weare to understand the postwar world.
San Francisco ChronicleEntertaining and lively....Isaacson and Thomas have fashioneda Cold War Plutarch.
The New York Times Book ReviewA richly textured account of a class and of a historical period.
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