ISAACSON, Walter; Evan Thomas.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
First Edition of Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas' The Wise Men; Signed by Walter Isaacson
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
$650.00
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First edition of this biography on how six influential American statesmen shaped U.S. foreign policy and the global order during the Cold War. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscriptions to the front and rear pastedowns.
Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas’s The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) is a collective biography of six influential American statesmen—Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, and Charles Bohlen—whose diplomacy helped shape U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. The authors trace how their shared backgrounds in elite institutions and overlapping networks of power informed a pragmatic, internationalist vision that guided strategies such as containment and the Marshall Plan. Walter Isaacson, a journalist and former editor of Time magazine as well as president of the Aspen Institute, has authored acclaimed biographies of individuals such as Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein, emphasizing the interplay of creativity, science, and leadership. Evan Thomas, a longtime journalist for Newsweek and Time, has written extensively on American politics and foreign policy, producing biographies of figures like Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Sandra Day O’Connor.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
$650.00
In Stock