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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas is a non-fiction book about six key U.S. foreign policy officials who shaped American strategy after World War II. The book chronicles how Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, John McCloy, and Charles Bohlen, as the "original best and brightest," developed influential policies like containment and helped create institutions such as NATO, the Marshall Plan, and the World Bank to navigate the early Cold War. It blends their personal biographies with the public drama of the era to show how their backgrounds and close relationships influenced their actions.
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