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The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s
Title:
The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s
Author:
Hitchcock, William I., author.
ISBN:
9781439175668
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

©2018
Physical Description:
xx, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover

Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
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 -- Taking on Jim Crow -- 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 -- U-2 -- Fighting to the finish -- A new generation.
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Document ID:
SD_ILS:2287143
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