"This extensive group portrait by two Time news editors trumpets the role of six policymakers ... in taking post-WWII America from isolationism to a recognition that the U.S. 'would have to assume the burden of a global role.' The irony is that, as elder statesmen, they sometimes warned against the interventionist momentum they had helped create, as this behind-the-scenes account makes clear.... History buffs will follow with interest the minor revelations that spill forth as the six advise presidents from F.D.R. to L.B.J."—Publishers Weekly