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The Georgetown set : friends and rivals in Cold War Washington / Gregg Herken.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

9780307271181 (hc.)

0307271188 (hc.)

xi, 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

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.

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