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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Herken, Gregg, 1947- author.     Subjects     Political culture -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.     Cold War.     Upper class -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.     Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.     Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.     Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- Biography.     Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Herken, Gregg, 1947- author.       by title:      The Georgetown set [...         MARC Display

The Georgetown set [electronic resource] : friends and rivals in Cold War Washington / Gregg Herken. by Herken, Gregg, 1947- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2014. Subjects Political culture -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.   Cold War.   Upper class -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.   Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.   Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.   Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.   Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- Biography.   Washington (D.C.) -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=47301166-6190-4BD7-9F22-7D893E387319 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{47301166-6190-4BD7-9F22-7D893E387319}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385353045 (electronic bk.) 0385353049 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource Requests:  0 Summary:  A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington-a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner. In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and well-connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Vietnam, and the endgame of Watergate. This 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 diplomats, spies, and scholars. It was a time when presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professors-often over martinis and hors d'oeuvres-and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next day's newspapers. Gregg Herken illuminates the drama of these years and brings this remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open, but vividly to life.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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