Ike and McCarthy
Subtitle: Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
By: David A. Nichols
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781451686609
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; Anti-communist movements; Presidents; Influence; Biography; History
Description: "Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimately resulted in McCarthy being censured and discredited"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. 1953 : priorities. The first confrontation; title: "Don't join the book burners!"; title: "You're in the army now!"; title: The secretary and the senator; title: The turning point; title: Part 2. 1954 : mobilization. "Eisenhower's first move"; title: "Not fit to wear that uniform"; title: Saving Robert Stevens; title: Eisenhower in command; title: A political D-Day; title: Part 3. 1954 : vindication; title: "A war of manuever"; title: Countdown; title: The Eisenhower-McCarthy hearings; title: Protecting the president; title: "No sense of decency?"; title: Epilogue.