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- 2012372286 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.".
- 2012372286 contributor B12544121.
- 2012372286 coverage "United States Politics and government 1953-1961.".
- 2012372286 date "2012".
- 2012372286 description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-425) and index.".
- 2012372286 description "Making Ike -- The first term -- The second term.".
- 2012372286 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.".
- 2012372286 extent "451 pages :".
- 2012372286 identifier "9780767928137 (pbk.)".
- 2012372286 issued "2012".
- 2012372286 language "eng".
- 2012372286 spatial "United States Politics and government 1953-1961.".
- 2012372286 spatial "United States".
- 2012372286 subject "973.921092 B 23".
- 2012372286 subject "E836 .N49 2012".
- 2012372286 subject "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.".
- 2012372286 subject "Presidents United States Biography.".
- 2012372286 tableOfContents "Making Ike -- The first term -- The second term.".
- 2012372286 title "Eisenhower : the White House years / Jim Newton.".
- 2012372286 type "text".