The Wise Menintroduces the originalbest and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to post-war 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 defence 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. “A richly textured account of a class and of a historical period.”