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The Wise Men, Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1988
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- Titel
- The Wise Men
- Ondertitel
- Six Friends and the World They Made
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
- Uitgever
- Simon & Schuster
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1988
- Formaat
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0671504657
- ISBN13
- 9780671504656
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Sociale Wetenschappen, Historisch thema, Handel, Business & Management, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Geschiedenis, Politicologie & Politiek, Autobiografie en memoires, Politiek, Geschiedenis van de VS, Biografieën van politici
- Beoordeling
- 4,05 van 5
- Aantekening
- s/t: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy 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.