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

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extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents.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

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Uniform Title:Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
Main Author: Hitchcock, William I. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Series:Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
Subjects:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969 > Influence.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969.
Eisenhower, Dwight D > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969 > Influence.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961.
Diplomatic relations.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government.
United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
1953-1961
Biographies.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:xx, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.