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The age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s

William I. Hitchcock

Book - 2018

"A page-turner masterpiece. "₆--The Age of Eisenhower is the definitive account of this presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents. In his masterful account, Hitchcock shows how Ike shaped modern America, and he astutely assesses Eisenhower's close confidants, from Attorney General Brownell to Secretary of State Dulles. The result is an eye-opening reevaluation that exp...lains why this "do-nothing "president is rightly regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had.

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Series
Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
Subjects
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969 > Influence.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961.
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster 2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Language
English
Physical Description
xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-621) and index.
ISBN
9781439175668
Main Author
William I. Hitchcock (author)
  • Part I. Duty
  • Ascent
  • Star power
  • Call to duty
  • Crusade
  • Part II. An age of peril
  • Scorpions in a bottle
  • Confronting McCarthy
  • Dark arts for a Cold War
  • Asian dominoes
  • Taking on Jim Crow
  • God, government and the middle way
  • To the summit
  • A formidable indifference
  • Double cross at Suez
  • Part III. Race, rockets and revolution
  • The color line
  • Ike's missile crisis
  • Contending with Khrushchev
  • Secret wars in the third world
  • U-2
  • Fighting to the finish
  • A new generation.

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