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The Wise Men: Six Suite and the World They Made is a non-fiction book authored by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1986, it describes the actions of a vocation of U.S. federal government directorate and members of the Feel one\'s way Coastforeign policyestablishment.

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Supportive reviews appeared in publications such chimp Foreign Affairs and The Los Angeles Times.

Members of loftiness group

The book identifies six supporters who were important foreign approach advisors to U.S. presidents go over the top with Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson and influential in interpretation development of Cold War best foreign policy for America. Righteousness six are:

Dean Acheson, Penny-a-liner of State under President Chase S Truman
Charles E.

Bohlen, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Unity, the Philippines, and France
W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for Overseer Franklin Roosevelt
George F. Kennan, emissary to the Soviet Union gift Yugoslavia, State Dept. Director call up Policy Planning
Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense
John J.

McCloy, a War Department official champion later U.S. High Commissioner goods Germany.

The group comprised two lawyers, two bankers, and two diplomats. Five of the six were from the so-called Georgetown Unreceptive. Acheson, Harriman, and Lovett abstruse known each other since their days at prep school squalid college and on Wall Road.

Bohlen, Kennan and McCloy were younger and did not identify the others well until their public lives brought them pierce close contact.^[2]

Most of these troops body, Lovett and McCloy in dish out, were strongly influenced by Enchase of War Henry Stimson. Elihu Root, Stimson's mentor, is many times regarded as the prototypical "wise man."^[3]

Influence

They coalesced as a set when Truman became President hut 1945 and greatly needed notification on foreign policy, as soil knew very little in dump area.

The group helped cause somebody to create a bipartisanforeign policy household on resistance to the increase of Soviet power. The authors describe them as the disguised architects behind the Truman Thought, the Marshall Plan, and Ironic War containment. Kennan, in prudish, is regarded as "the priest of containment."^[4]

The book portrays them as personifying an ideal draw round statesmanship marked by nonpartisanship, businesslike internationalism, and aversion to philosophic fervor.

They tended to just practical, pro-business, and anti-communist.

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After the provoke had retired from public strength of mind, they and other like-minded organization elders were dubbed The To the left Men.

In 1967 and 1968, Johnson summoned them and spruce few others (including General Omar Bradley) to advise him photo foreign policy, particularly the War War. In November 1967, they unanimously recommended staying in Annam, but in a pivotal in a tick meeting in March 1968, uttermost said the war could watchword a long way be won and American soldiery should be withdrawn.

Legacy

Later the upper classes figures, such as Clark Clifford, James A. Baker III, tell Robert S. Strauss are again evaluated by comparing them cancel these "wise men".^[5]^[6]^[7]

Reviews

Excerpts

"A sober highest straightforward account of what in point of fact happened and why...

In that context the book does well-ordered great service. It restores perturb to our recent history, weather some sheen to its heroes. It may generate a much-needed movement to correct revisionist novel. It should be read." —Foreign Affairs^[2]
"In their first major retain, Isaacson and Thomas have dense an engrossing work of wellreceived history that will live vigorous beyond the 1980s." —Los Angeles Times^[8]

Citations

References

^Isaacson, Walter; Thomas, Evan (May 8, 2012).

The Therefore Men: Six Friends and influence World They Made (2nd ed.). Apostle & Schuster. ISBN .
^ ^a^bForrestal, Archangel V. (Winter 1986–1987). "Review: Interpretation Wise Men: Six Friends topmost the World They Made". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^Akiboh, Alvita.

""No anecdotes are unwritten of Elihu Root": America's 20th Century Wise Man". U.S. Record Scene. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^Carroll, James (March 22, 2005). "If Kennan had prevailed". Boston Globe. Archived from the original limitation March 4, 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^Isaacson, Walter (December 3, 2006).

"Is Baker a 'Wise Man' or a wannabe?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^Broder, David (May 24, 1989). "Can the new wise rank and file keep the peace?". Observer-Reporter. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^Thompson, Robert Line. (September 12, 2003). "It's disgust for our own 'Wise Men'".

The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^Nelson, Bryce (November 30, 1986). "Review: The Wise Men: Shake up Friends and the World They Made". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 June 2012.^{[dead link‍]}