The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

1.World of Their Own/To the manner born 2.Tap Days/"To run with the swift" 3.Joint Ventures/Harriman and Lovett on Wall Street 4.World Courts/McCloy and Acheson before the bar 5.A Pretty Good Club/Kennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service 6.On Active Service/Enlisting in a noble cause 7.Heavenly Twins/McCloy and Lovett at the War Department 8.Missions to Moscow/Harriman, Acheson, Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear 9.Words of One Syllable/The education of Harry Truman 10.Line down the Middle/Splitting Germany and the atom 11.The Blinding Dawn/Diplomacy in an atomic age 12.Containment/Sensitive to the logic of force 13.Order from Chaos/"Like apples in a barrel" 14."Simple Honest Men"/The selling of the Marshall Plan 15.Crisis/"Will Russia move first?" 16."A Different World"/Of Super bombs and primitives 17.War/"No weakness of purpose here" 18.Nadir/Disaster at the Yalu Contents note continued: 19.Exile/The wilderness years 20.Passing the Torch/"No, sir, my bearings are burnt out" 21.Twilight Struggles/Reunion at the brink 22.LBJ's Establishment/"I told the President he was wholly right" 23.Judgment Days/Last Supper of the Wise Men 24.Legacy/"Never in such good company".