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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Herken, Gregg, 1947-       by title:      The Georgetown set :...       by call number:      973.92 H548g     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 973.92 H548g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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