PDF The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World by Lee Fratantuono in History

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With a new introduction by the authors; this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama; The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest; whose towering intellects; outsize personalities; and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos and leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day: 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.