The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.
Hitchcock, William I., author.
2018
E835 .H56 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.
Author
Hitchcock, William I., author.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781439175668 (hardcover)
1439175667 (hardcover)
9781451687435 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xx, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E835 .H56 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.921092
Summary
"A page-turner masterpiece. "--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drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents.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 explains why this "do-nothing "president is rightly regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-621) and index.
Series
Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
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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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