The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They MadeSimon and Schuster, 4 juin 1997 - 864 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Architects of the American Century | 17 |
Street | 98 |
World CourtsMcCloy and Acheson before | 119 |
A Pretty Good ClubKennan and Bohlen in | 140 |
On Active ServiceEnlisting in a noble cause | 179 |
Heavenly TwinsMcCloy and Lovett at the | 191 |
Missions to MoscowHarriman Acheson | 210 |
Two CREATION | 251 |
A Different WorldOf Super bombs and primitives | 480 |
WarNo weakness of purpose here | 505 |
NadirDisaster at the Yalu | 535 |
ExileThe wilderness years | 559 |
Three WISE MEN | 587 |
Passing the TorchNo sir my bearings are burnt out | 589 |
Twilight StrugglesReunion at the brink | 605 |
LBJs EstablishmentI told the President he was wholly right | 642 |
Words of One SyllableThe education of Harry Truman | 253 |
Line down the MiddleSplitting Germany and the atom | 288 |
The Blinding DawnDiplomacy in an atomic age | 314 |
ContainmentSensitive to the logic of force | 347 |
Order from ChaosLike apples in a barrel | 386 |
Simple Honest MenThe selling of the Marshall Plan | 419 |
CrisisWill Russia move first? | 439 |
Judgment DaysLast Supper of the Wise Men | 676 |
LegacyNever in such good company | 714 |
Acknowledgments | 742 |
Sources | 809 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made : Acheson ..., Volume 10 Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made : Acheson ..., Volume 10 Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
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