Architects of the American century
Gathering. World of their own: to the manner born
Tap days: "to run with the swift"
Joint ventures: Harriman and Lovett on Wall Street
World courts: McCloy and Acheson before the bar
A pretty good club: Kennan and Bohlen in the Foreign Service
On active service: enlisting in a noble cause
Heavenly twins: McCloy and Lovett at the War Department
Missions to Moscow: Harriman, Acheson, Bohlen and Kennan wrestle with a biting bear
Creation. Words of one syllable: the education of Harry Truman
Line down the middle: splitting Germany and the atom
The blinding dawn: diplomacy in an atomic age
Containment: sensitive to the logic of force
Order from chaos: "like apples in a barrel"
"Simple honest men" : the selling of the Marshall Plan
Crisis: "will Russia move first?"
"A different world" : of super bombs and primitives
War: "no weakness of purpose here"
Nadir: disaster at the Yalu
Exile: the wilderness years
Wise Men. Passing the torch: "no, sir, my bearings are burnt out"
Twilight struggles: reunion at the brink
LBJ's establishment: "I told the President he was wholly right"
Judgment days: last supper of the wise men
Legacy: "never in such good company."