Volume 39, Number 16 · October 8, 1992
The Proconsul
By James Chace
The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment
by Kai Bird
Simon and Schuster, 800 pp., $30.00
America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany
by Thomas Alan Schwartz
Harvard University Press, 404 pp., $29.95
'I was just a leg man,' John J. McCloy said. After serving as assistant secretary of war, president of the World Bank, high commissioner for Germany, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Ford Foundation, and the Chase Manhattan Bank, McCloy was named by Richard Rovere and John Kenneth Galbraith as 'the chairman' of the American 'establishment.' But the evidence amassed by Kai Bird suggests that McCloy was right. There was no chairman of the establishment, any more than there was a Wizard of Oz. Behind the screen, Kai Bird shows us an energetic, workaday lawyer.
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