Who is Charles Eustis Bohlen and what is his importance in the nonfiction book, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen,…?

Charles Eustis Bohlen, known as Chip, was born on August 30, 1904 at Grindstone Island, New York. He was the son of Charles and Celestine. Summers were spent at the family summer home in Aiken, South Carolina. He was educated at St. Paul's in Concord, New Hampshire from which he was expelled. He then attended Harvard and was elected to the prestigious Procellian Club. After Harvard, he entered the Foreign Service. Married to Avis, he served in both Washington and Moscow and other places in the world. He served in both the Truman and Eisenhower and other administrations. He retired in 1969 and died of cancer on January 1, 1974.