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Herken, Gregg, 1947-
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.
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Herken, Gregg, 1947-
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.
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The Georgetown set : friends and rivals in Cold War
Washington
/ Gregg Herken.
by
Herken, Gregg, 1947-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Call #:
973.92 H548g
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.
ISBN:
9780307271181 (hc.)
0307271188 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xi, 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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. They 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 other diplomats, spies, and scholars responsible for crafting America's response to the Soviet Union from Truman to Reagan. This was a smaller, cozier Washington--utterly unlike today's capital--where presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professors over martinis and hors
d
'oeuvres, and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next day's newspapers. Together, they navigated the perilous years of the Cold War, yielding triumphs--and tragedies--with very real consequences for present-day America and the world.--Provided by publisher.
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