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| 100 | _aIsaacson, Walter. | ||
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_aThe Wise Men _bsix friends and the world they made |
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_aNew York _bSimon and Schuster _c1986 |
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| 300 | _a853 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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. | ||
| 650 | _aStatesmen--United States--Biography. | ||
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