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CONTENTS

Architects of the American Century

One GATHERING

1. World of Their Own/To the manner born

2. Tap Days/“To run with the swift”

3. Joint Ventures/Harriman and Lovett on Wall Street

4. World Courts/McCloy and Acheson before the bar

5. A Pretty Good Club/Kennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service

6. On Active Service/Enlisting in a noble cause

7. Heavenly Twins /McCloy and Lovett at the War Department

8. Missions to Moscow/Harriman, Acheson, Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear

Two CREATION

9. Words of One Syllable/The education of Harry Truman

10. Line down the Middle/Splitting Germany and the atom

11. The Blinding Dawn/Diplomacy in an atomic age

12. Containment/Sensitive to the logic of force

13. Order from Chaos/“Like apples in a barrel”

14. “Simple Honest Men”/The selling of the Marshall Plan

15. Crisis/“Will Russia move first?”

16. “A Different World”/Of Super bombs and primitives

17. War/“No weakness of purpose here”

18. Nadir/Disaster at the Yalu

19. Exile/The wilderness years

Three WISE MEN

20. Passing the Torch/“No, sir, my bearings are burnt out”

21. Twilight Struggles/Reunion at the brink

22. LBJ’s Establishment/“I told the President he was wholly right”

23. Judgment Days/Last Supper of the Wise Men

24. Legacy/“Never in such good company”

Acknowledgments

Photographs

Notes

Sources

Index