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

Just prior to World War II, Dean Acheson accepted a position as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. After World War II, he wanted to return to private life but instead became Under Secretary of State and helped to formulate the Marshall Plan and also the Truman Doctrine. He was Secretary of State in the Truman administration and then returned to private life as a lawyer. He functioned as adviser for President Kennedy who considered him to be an expert on Germany. Kennedy asked him to devise a strategy for dealing with the Russians in Berlin.