Bibliograph

The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock

Type

Label

The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-621) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The age of Eisenhower

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989124126

Responsibility statement

William I. Hitchcock

Sub title

America and the world in the 1950s

Summary

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drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents.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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

general

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