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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

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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.

RUNNING TIME => 33hrs. and 27mins.

©2012 Walter Isaacson and E. Thomas 2013 Random House Audio

Language: English

Format: Audible Audio

Release: January 01, 1986

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

RUNNING TIME => 33hrs. and 27mins.

©2012 Walter Isaacson and E. Thomas 2013 Random House Audio

Language: English

Format: Audible Audio

Release: January 01, 1986

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