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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

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Within the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who assisted in shaping American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the rustic, 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, extraordinary-couple brothers who were a number of the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in command 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 unsuitable, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (regularly over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. All through, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of women and men not only out into the open but vividly to life.

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