The Wise Men (First Printing) Six Friends and the World They Made : Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy

Isaacson, Walter & Evan Thomas

ISBN 10: 0671504657 / ISBN 13: 9780671504656

Edité par Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1986

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853 pages; B&W photographs. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Remainder mark on the bottom exterior edge of textblock. Minor discoloration on the top exterior edge of textblock. Light fading on spine. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Wise Men (First Printing) Six Friends and the World They Made : Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy
• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671504657
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671504656
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• État de l'article: Good+
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

Book by Isaacson Walter Thomas Evan

Présentation de l'éditeur

With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. 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: 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.