The Georgetown set friends and rivals in Cold War Washington
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 connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and the endgame of Vietnam. The Ge...
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New York
Knopf
2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | A Borzoi Book
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The WASP ascendancy
- "A political village which has become a world capital"
- "Everything is awful here"
- "Is war inevitable?"
- "Would he go into the woods?"
- "To fight fire with fire"
- "Some brave new approach"
- "A land of conspiracy, run by conspirators"
- "Why has Washington gone crazy?"
- "A rather serious border incident"
- "Venomous, exciting and pretty frightening"
- Bold easterners
- "Stray and gusty winds"
- "The wild pigs of Capitol Hill"
- "An act of very great folly"
- "A chap of great promise"
- "The prophet of the missile gap"
- "A breathless time, full of energy and hope"
- "We will all fry"
- "How great is one's duty to truth?"
- Degringolade
- "The other side of the coin"
- "I'm afraid Joe is a cruel man"
- "It was the war that did him in"
- "Nobody plays by the rules anymore"
- "There is a feeling of doors closing"
- Epilogue: "We're all so old or dead": the end of the Georgetown set