Table of Contents
Introduction 13
Architects of the American Century 17
1 Gathering 37
1 World of Their Own/To the manner born 39
2 Tap Days/"To run with the swift" 65
3 Joint Ventures/Harriman and Lovett on Wall Street 98
4 World Courts/McCloy and Acheson before the bar 119
5 A Pretty Good Club/Kennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service 140
6 On Active Service/Enlisting in a noble cause 179
7 Heavenly Twins/McCloy and Lovett at the War Department 191
8 Missions to Moscow/Harriman, Acheson, Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear 210
2 Creation 251
9 Words of One Syllable/The education of Harry Truman 253
10 Line down the Middle/Splitting Germany and the atom 288
11 The Blinding Dawn/Diplomacy in an atomic age 314
12 Containment/Sensitive to the logic of force 347
13 Order from Chaos/"Like apples in a barrel" 386
14 "Simple Honest Men"/The selling of the Marshall Plan 419
15 Crisis/"Will Russia move first?" 439
16 "A Different World"/Of Super bombs and primitives 480
17 War/"No weakness of purpose here" 505
18 Nadir/Disaster at the Yalu 535
19 Exile/The wilderness years 559
3 Wise Men 587
20 Passing the Torch/"No, sir, my bearings are burnt out" 589
21 Twilight Struggles/Reunion at the brink 605
22 LBJ's Establishment/"I told the President he was wholly right" 642
23 Judgment Days/Last Supper of the Wise Men 676
24 Legacy/"Never in such good company" 714
Acknowledgments 742
Notes 745
Sources 809
Index 833