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Author: Walter Isaacson

📘 The wise men: Six friends and the world they made by Walter Isaacson

The Wise Men follows the lives of six close friends whose intellectual vigor and political acumen steered the United States through the tumultuous post–World War II era. Averell Harriman served as a diplomat and special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, secretary of state, was pivotal to the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan; George Kennan emerged as a leading intellectual and Washington insider; Robert Lovett held key defense positions during the early Cold War; John McCloy became a prominent private civic leader; and Charles Bohlen, a skilled diplomat, served as ambassador to the Soviet Union. Together, their collaboration and debate forged policies that brought order to postwar chaos and created a lasting legacy within American foreign relations.

First publish date: 1986

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Political Biography

Authors: Walter Isaacson

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