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About The Book
The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, 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, author of Containment; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense during 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 The Authors
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Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
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Evan Thomas is the author of numerous books, including The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A.; Robert Kennedy: His Life; The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1989; Sea of Thunder: The Last Great Naval Command, 1941-1945; and John Paul Jones.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 1, 2013)
- Length: 864 pages
- ISBN13: 9781476728827
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Raves and Reviews
“A wealth of new information and insights on the people and events that shaped the first four decades of the Cold War.”
– The Boston Globe
“Must be read if we are to understand the postwar world.”
– Robert A. Caro, author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
“Isaacson and Thomas have fashioned a Cold War Plutarch.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“A richly textured account of a class and of a historical period.”
– New York Times Book Review
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