THE GEORGETOWN SET: FRIENDS AND RIVALS IN COLD WAR WASHINGTON
Book ID/图书代码： 02330014B69160
English Summary/英文概要： A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington-a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.
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 well-connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Vietnam, and the endgame of Watergate. This Georgetown set 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 diplomats, spies, and scholars. It was a time when presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professors-often over martinis and hors d’oeuvres-and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next day’s newspapers. Gregg Herken illuminates the drama of these years and brings this remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open, but vividly to life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 再现了二战后，一群严谨的记者，间谍和政府官员们如何在鸡尾酒会上策动冷战的生动历史画面。
二次世界大战之后，美国乔治城大学的林荫大道一点看不出有似冷战政客的温床之地的痕迹：这些小集团中的精英，是一些受过高等教育的知识分子，这些出身名门的平民们曾通过当时的麦卡锡主义帮助美国政府推动马歇尔计划，越南战争和轰动一时的水门事件的上演。这部乔治城大学风云集中，包括了著名的《华盛顿邮报》先驱出版人菲尔和凯伊•格雷汉姆；一对奇特的国务院政治顾问，乔和斯图尔特•奥尔索普兄弟；一位策动美国中央情报局隐蔽行动的狂躁症律师，弗兰克•维斯那；和许多外交官；间谍，和学者。那是一个总统会与记者们，在马提尼酒会或是在法式饭前点心和专业人士列席会上商讨政时时事的年代，而在那个时代，有着类似像力挺民主党的，次日便会将这些政策在报纸上进行宣传的专栏媒体作家Alsops【1】。作者Gregg Herken再现了那些充满了戏剧性的历史岁月，生动地向我们展现了这些幕后推手们隐秘而真实的生活。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Gregg Herken是加利福尼亚大学现代美国外交历史的名誉教授，他的作品包括《兄弟会的炸弹》，《战争议题》，和《红衣主教的抉择》。目前他和家人定居与美国加州的圣克鲁兹。
GREGG HERKEN is professor emeritus of modern American diplomatic history at the University of California, and the author of Brotherhood of the Bomb, The Winning Weapon, Counsels of War, and Cardinal Choices. He and his family live in Santa Cruz, California.
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