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020 _a978-1476728827
082 _a327.292ISA
100 _aIsaacson, Walter.
245 4 _aThe Wise Men
_bsix friends and the world they made
260 _aNew York
_bSimon and Schuster
_c1986
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.
999 _c11026
_d11026