Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
Physical Description |
xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part I. Duty -- Ascent -- Star power -- Call to duty -- Crusade -- Part II. An age of peril -- Scorpions in a bottle -- Confronting McCarthy -- Dark arts for a Cold War -- Asian dominoes -- A murder in Mississippi -- God, government and the middle way -- To the summit -- A formidable indifference -- Double cross at Suez -- Part III. Race, rockets and revolution -- The color line -- Ike's missile crisis -- Contending with Khrushchev -- Secret wars in the third world -- Shoot down -- Fighting to the finish -- A new generation. |
Subject |
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Influence.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
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