The Wise Men av Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas

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<b>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.</b><BR><BR>A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, <i>The Wise Men </i>introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><i>The Wise Men </i>shares the stories of 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, assista