Full name: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

Authors: Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781476728827

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: 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. Similar books: Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas Brave Companions by David McCullough The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer A Country of Vast Designs by Robert W. Merry Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens A Godly Hero by Michael Kazin The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts The Cold War by Robert J. McMahon Eyewitness to America by David Colbert Thomas Paine by Craig Nelson Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer The Amateur by Edward Klein