Edited by historian Geoffrey Roberts, the American's letters open up the workings of Allied diplomacy and reveal optimism as she navigates the turning points of the 20th century.
We don’t think of ‘the Harrimans’ as we think of, say, the Kennedys. But maybe we should. For serious students of Anglo-American relations there’s W. Averell Harriman, the diplomat (politician, financier; himself the son of a famous railroad baron) tasked with...
