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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Architects of the American Century
Intro and Ads for Wise Men
Part One: Gathering
Chapter 1: World of Their Own/To the manner born
Chapter 2: Tap Days/“To run with the swift”
Chapter 3: Joint Ventures/Harriman and Lovett on Wall
Chapter 4: World Courts/McCloy and Acheson before the bar
Chapter 5: A Pretty Good Club/Kennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service
Chapter 6: On Active Service/Enlisting in a noble cause
Chapter 7: Heavenly Twins /McCloy and Lovett at the War Department
Chapter 8: Missions to Moscow/Harriman, Acheson, Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear
Part Two: Creation
Chapter 9: Words of One Syllable/The education of Harry Truman
Chapter 10: Line down the Middle/Splitting Germany and the atom
Chapter 11: The Blinding Dawn/Diplomacy in an atomic age
Chapter 12: Containment/Sensitive to the logic of force
Chapter 13: Order from Chaos/“Like apples in a barrel”
Chapter 14: “Simple Honest Men VThe selling of the Marshall Plan
Chapter 15: Crisis/“Will Russia move first?”
Chapter 16: “A Different World”/Of Super bombs and primitives
Chapter 17: War/“No weakness of purpose here”
Chapter 18: Nadir/Disaster at the Yalu
Chapter 19: Exile/The wilderness years
Part Three: Wise Men
Chapter 20: Passing the Torch/“No, sir, my bearings are burnt out”
Chapter 21: Twilight Struggles/Reunion at the brink
Chapter 22: LBJ’s Establishment/“I told the President he was wholly right”
Chapter 23: Judgment Days /Last Supper of the Wise Men
Chapter 24: Legacy /“Never in such good company”
Acknowledgments
Photographs
Notes
Sources
Index
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