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The Wise Man.(Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War)(Book review)
Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, by Robert L. Beisner (Oxford, 832 pp., $35)
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WHEN I was a student at Groton in the 1980s, after the Old Boys' network had been swamped by the meritocracy, there was a palpable nostalgia for the good old days, when graduates could aspire to become Wise Men after the fashion of Averell Harriman, Sumner Welles, and McGeorge Bundy. Dean Acheson was the most remarkable of this class of leaders; his wit and intellect placed him above most of the others who affected a style of high breeding on the English model. Yet if Acheson was superior to his caste, he bore its distinctive marks, and it is not ...
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