Includes data on World War II diplomacy, the Cold War, Communist containment, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, Kennedy and Johnson diplomacy, and Vietnam War diplomacy.

Includes index.

Architects of the American century -- 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 -- 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"