The Georgetown Set Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
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Gregg Herken
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- Hardcover
- 9780307271181
- 28 oktober 2014
- 494 pagina's
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A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washingtona rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.
In the years after World War II, Georgetowns leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and the endgame of Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers ofThe Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the countrys premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars responsible for crafting Americas response to the Soviet Union from Truman to Reagan.
This was a smaller, cozier Washingtonutterly unlike todays capitalwhere presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professors over martinis and hors doeuvres, and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next days newspapers. Together, they navigated the perilous years of the Cold War, yielding triumphsand tragedieswith very real consequences for present-day America and the world.
Gregg Herken captures their successes and failures and gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals. Throughout, he illuminates the drama of those years, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open but vividly to life.
In the years after World War II, Georgetowns leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and the endgame of Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers ofThe Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the countrys premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars responsible for crafting Americas response to the Soviet Union from Truman to Reagan.
This was a smaller, cozier Washingtonutterly unlike todays capitalwhere presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professors over martinis and hors doeuvres, and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next days newspapers. Together, they navigated the perilous years of the Cold War, yielding triumphsand tragedieswith very real consequences for present-day America and the world.
Gregg Herken captures their successes and failures and gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals. Throughout, he illuminates the drama of those years, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open but vividly to life.
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