TY - BOOK AU - Isaacson, Walter. TI - The Wise Men: six friends and the world they made SN - 978-1476728827 U1 - 327.292ISA PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Statesmen--United States--Biography N1 - Includes index N2 - 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 ER -