Acclaimed journalist and historian Evan Thomas presents The Wise Men, a captivating blend of personal biography and public drama that tells the story of the original postwar leaders whose personalities and decisions shaped the early Cold War. Thomas introduces Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt’s envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman himself; George Kennan, the self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of Washington; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense; John McCloy, one of the nation’s most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Drawing on meticulous research and rich storytelling, Thomas brings these complex figures to life, revealing how their leadership, rivalries, and personal struggles guided the United States through postwar chaos and set the stage for decades of international diplomacy. The Wise Men remains a definitive portrait of the architects of the Cold War.
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