num_pages: 864
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
titlecomplete: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
characters: Charles E. Bohlen, George F. Kennan, Robert A. Lovett, W. Averell Harriman, John J. McCloy, Dean Acheson
genres: 20th Century, Politics, Biography, International Relations, American History, Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 3740
publisher: Simon & Schuster