The Georgetown set: friends and rivals in Cold War Washington

The WASP ascendancy

"A political village which has become a world capital"

"Everything is awful here"

"Is war inevitable?"

"Would he go into the woods?"

"To fight fire with fire"

"Some brave new approach"

"A land of conspiracy, run by conspirators"

"Why has Washington gone crazy?"

"A rather serious border incident"

"Venomous, exciting and pretty frightening"

Bold easterners

"Stray and gusty winds"

"The wild pigs of Capitol Hill"

"An act of very great folly"

"A chap of great promise"

"The prophet of the missile gap"

"A breathless time, full of energy and hope"

"We will all fry"

"How great is one's duty to truth?"

Degringolade

"The other side of the coin"

"I'm afraid Joe is a cruel man"

"It was the war that did him in"

"Nobody plays by the rules anymore"

"There is a feeling of doors closing"

Epilogue: "We're all so old or dead": the end of the Georgetown set.