{"product_id":"book-9497","title":"The Georgetown Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregg 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300431470896,"sku":"BD9497","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300431503664,"sku":"ZE9497","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49300431536432,"sku":"ZM9497","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/9497-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775735489","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-9497","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}