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- 2011010759 abstract "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.".
- 2011010759 contributor B12112216.
- 2011010759 coverage "United States Politics and government 1953-1961.".
- 2011010759 created "c2011.".
- 2011010759 date "2011".
- 2011010759 date "c2011.".
- 2011010759 dateCopyrighted "c2011.".
- 2011010759 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-425) and index.".
- 2011010759 description "Making Ike -- The first term -- The second term.".
- 2011010759 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.".
- 2011010759 extent "451 p. :".
- 2011010759 identifier "038552353X (hardcover)".
- 2011010759 identifier "9780385523530 (hardcover)".
- 2011010759 issued "2011".
- 2011010759 issued "c2011.".
- 2011010759 language "eng".
- 2011010759 publisher "New York : Doubleday,".
- 2011010759 spatial "United States Politics and government 1953-1961.".
- 2011010759 spatial "United States".
- 2011010759 subject "973.921092 B 22".
- 2011010759 subject "E836 .N49 2011".
- 2011010759 subject "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.".
- 2011010759 subject "Presidents United States Biography.".
- 2011010759 tableOfContents "Making Ike -- The first term -- The second term.".
- 2011010759 title "Eisenhower : the White House years / Jim Newton.".
- 2011010759 type "text".