![]() ![]() ![]() 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. : The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (9780307456342) by Herken, Gregg and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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. Historian Gregg Herken takes us inside this world in his meticulously researched and compellingly written The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War. 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. 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. Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington, by Gregg Herken, is about the social and political elites who crafted U.S. 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. ![]()
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