The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

(Paperback, Reissue)

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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 Roosevelts 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 nations most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

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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 *

Author Bio

Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin,and Albert Einstein.He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor ofTime.He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. Visit him atIsaacson.Tulane.edu.

Evan Thomas is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers JOHN PAUL JONES, SEA OF THUNDER, and FIRST: SANDRA DAY OCONNOR. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years as Newsweeks Washington bureau chief. He appears regularly on many TV and radio talk shows. Thomas has taught at Harvard and Princeton.