The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made 
Subtitle: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 853
ISBN-13: 9780671504656
Subjects: Statesmen; International Relations; Diplomatic History; Politics - Current Events; Biography/Autobiography; United States; Biography; 20th century; Foreign relations
First sentence: As he stood on the dock of the brown-shingled boathouse, Averell Harriman paid little notice to the spindly boy rowing in seat seven of the shell hacking up the languid Nashua River.