The Wise Men - by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collective biography of six U.S. statesmen and the foreign policies which dominate our actions to this day: Averell Harriman, the 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 througout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><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> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><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, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A richly textured account of a class and of a historical period."-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>"Isaacson and Thomas have fashioned a Cold War Plutarch."-- "San Francisco Chronicle"<br><br>"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<br><br>"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"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of <i>Time</i>. He is the author of <i>Leonardo da Vinci</i>; <i>The Innovators</i>;<i> Steve Jobs</i>; <i>Einstein: His Life and Universe</i>; <i>Benjamin Franklin: An American Life</i>; and <i>Kissinger: A Biography</i>, and the coauthor of<i> The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. </i>Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu. <p/>Evan Thomas<b> </b>is the author of numerous books, including <i>The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A.</i>; <i>Robert Kennedy: His Life; The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1989</i>; <i>Sea of Thunder: The Last Great Naval Command, 1941-1945</i>; and <i>John Paul Jones. </i>
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