Eisenhower
Subtitle: the White House years
By: Jim Newton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780385523530
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Biography
Description: Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: One
title: Making Ike; label: 1
title: The Lessons of Family
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: The mentoring of Soldiers
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: Learning Politics
pagenum: 49; label: Two
title: The First Term; label: 4
title: From Candidate to President
pagenum: 59; label: 5
title: Changing America's Course
pagenum: 77; label: 6
title: Consequences
pagenum: 102; label: 7
title: Security
pagenum: 120; label: 8
title: "MacCarthywasm"
pagenum: 141; label: 9
title: Revolutions
pagenum: 162; label: 10
title: Heartache
pagenum: 182; label: 11
title: Crisis and Revival
pagenum: 205; label: 12
title: On the Edge
pagenum: 223; label: Three
title: The Second Term; label: 13
title: The Press of Change, the Price of Inaction
pagenum: 237; label: 14
title: Nuclear Interlude
pagenum: 260; label: 15
title: Many Ways to Fight
pagenum: 268; label: 16
title: Loss
pagenum: 280; label: 17
title: The Final Months
pagenum: 292; label: 18
title: Rejection
pagenum: 319; label: 19
title: Farewell
pagenum: 336; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 355; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 359; title: Notes
pagenum: 363; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 415; title: Index
pagenum: 427