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Title: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy by Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas ISBN: 0-671-65712-7 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: January, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Old Boys
Comment: The term 'Best and Brightest' is usually used, somewhat sarcastically, to refer to the policy makers in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, those initially involved with the Vietnam War. However, these policy makers, men like Clark Clifford and Robert McNamara, were merely following in the footsteps of a tradition established in the wake of World War II. This book traces the origin of what could be called the original 'Best and Brightest', those men who formulated American foreign policy during the beginning of the Cold War, and on into the Vietnam War. The Wise Men focuses in particular on six of these men: Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, Robert Lovett, Charles Bohlen, John Jay McCloy, and George Kennan. While it is a biography of men, it skips through the early parts of their lives, for it is mostly a biography of the State Department during World War II and the Cold War, and the role these six men had in its birth and maturation. It is also a biography of the American Establishment, which all of these men, educated at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, came to typify. It is a great book, and worth while to any with an interest in America since World War II.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book about our biggest policy makers
Comment: This is about six people that were some of the biggest policy makers in U.S. foreign policy from the 1930's through the 1970's. I read a book about one of the six, John McCloy, a few years ago. Besides McCloy, the book visits Averell Harriman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, George Kenan, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, and Ambassador to the Soviet Union Charles Bohlen.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exhaustive (exhausting), and fascinating
Comment: This book is fantastically interesting. The detail and the descriptions of personalities involved make the subject matter more than palatable, even to the less scholarly among us. The book is, however, very, very long and would have perhaps been better broken up into several volumes. I would characterize it as very well written, exhaustively researched, slightly fawning and uncritical at times, and, in general, well worth lugging around.
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Title: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson ISBN: 0393304124 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The VERY BEST MEN : Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA by Evan Thomas ISBN: 0684825384 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 10 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: KISSINGER by Walter Isaacson ISBN: 0671872362 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan ISBN: 1400040930 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The COLOR OF TRUTH: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms by Kai Bird ISBN: 0684856441 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 21 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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