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The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.
on the Cold War, today's America and the nature of the presidency itself.
Record details
- ISBN: 1439175667
- ISBN: 9781439175668
- Physical Description: xx, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photograph plates ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 > Influence. United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961. United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961. |