The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They MadeThis “engrossing narrative” examines the six American statesmen who rebuilt the world after WWII—with a new introduction by the authors (The New York Times). Blending personal biography and geopolitical history, Wise Men introduces six close friends who used their power and influence to shape the role their country would play in the dangerous years following the Second World War. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos and leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day. 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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... American policy to this day . Working together in an atmosphere of trust that in today's Washington would seem almost quaint , they shaped a new world order that committed a once - reticent nation to defending freedom wherever it sought ...
... American policy to this day . Working together in an atmosphere of trust that in today's Washington would seem almost quaint , they shaped a new world order that committed a once - reticent nation to defending freedom wherever it sought ...
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... America's sacred destiny ( and their own ) to take the lead in protecting freedom around the globe and create what Henry Luce in a 1941 Life magazine article envisioned as " The American Century . " There were , of course , other men ...
... America's sacred destiny ( and their own ) to take the lead in protecting freedom around the globe and create what Henry Luce in a 1941 Life magazine article envisioned as " The American Century . " There were , of course , other men ...
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... American policy making . Regarding service as an honor and imbued with a sense of noblesse oblige , they glided easily between private and public careers . As individuals , and even more so as a group , they embody what has been called ...
... American policy making . Regarding service as an honor and imbued with a sense of noblesse oblige , they glided easily between private and public careers . As individuals , and even more so as a group , they embody what has been called ...
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... American Establishment . Its household deities were Henry L. Stimson and Elihu Root ; its present leaders , Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy ; its front organizations , the Rockefeller , Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council ...
... American Establishment . Its household deities were Henry L. Stimson and Elihu Root ; its present leaders , Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy ; its front organizations , the Rockefeller , Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council ...
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... American commitments . They viewed America's leadership role , and their own , as part of a moral destiny . Godfrey Hodgson , an insightful British journalist , notes in an essay on the American Establishment that it was ...
... American commitments . They viewed America's leadership role , and their own , as part of a moral destiny . Godfrey Hodgson , an insightful British journalist , notes in an essay on the American Establishment that it was ...
Contents
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World CourtsMcCloy and Acheson before the | |
A Pretty Good ClubKennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service | |
On Active ServiceEnlisting in a noble cause | |
Heavenly Twins McCloy and Lovett at the War Department | |
Missions to MoscowHarriman Acheson Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear | |
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas No preview available - 2013 |
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