The Wise Men six friends and the world they made

By:

Isaacson, Walter

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Simon and Schuster 1986Description: 853 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

978-1476728827

Subject(s):

Statesmen--United States--Biography

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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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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