Eisenhower
Subtitle: the White House years
By: Jim Newton
Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
Publisher: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780767928137
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: Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Making Ike; title: The first term; title: The second term.