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This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a abundant and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and federal government officials who waged the Freezing Conflict over cocktails and evening meal.Within the years after World Conflict II, Georgetown's leafy avenues were home to a unlikely group of frosty 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 collection included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife web publishers of the Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Also, odd-couple brothers who have been one of the country's premier politics pundits; Frank Wisner, a motivated, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert businesses; and a bunch of diplomats, spies, and scholars. It had been a period when presidents made foreign policy in appointment with reporters and professors - often over martinis and hors d'oeuvres - and columnists like the Alsops advertised those policies in the next day's newspaper publishers.Gregg Herken illuminates the episode of the years and brings this impressive roster of women and men and their world not only out in to the available but vividly alive.
