The CHAIRMAN: JOHN J MCCLOY & THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT

"Even among the members of his powerful circle, the influential men who shaped the postwar globe and became the original 'best and brightest,' John McCloy stood as a figure of towering achievement. As a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and presidents; as Henry Stimson's right-hand man at the War Department; as president of the World Bank and chairman of the Chase financial empire; as perhaps the most frequently named presidential adviser, McCloy came to epitomize the American Est…