The Georgetown Set

The Georgetown Set
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : 9780307456342
ISBN-13 : 030745634X
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Book Synopsis The Georgetown Set by : Gregg Herken

Download or read book The Georgetown Set written by Gregg Herken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s 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. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.


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