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The Wise Men six friends and the world they made

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Simon and Schuster 1986Description: 853 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 978-1476728827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.292ISA
Summary: The Wise Men shares the stories of 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.
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam Biography 327.292ISA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available UR010022

Includes index.

The Wise Men shares the stories of 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.

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