Wise Men

<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.