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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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Hardcover
Updated edition from Simon & Schuster (May 8, 2012)
9781451683226 | details & prices | 853 pages | 6.75 × 10.00 × 2.00 in. | 2.65 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.
About: Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.
Paperback
Reissue edition from Simon & Schuster (June 1, 1997)
9780684837710 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.75 in. | 2.35 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, "The Wise Men" introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: 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.
About: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, "The Wise Men" introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: 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.