The age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s

"Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights turmoil and Cold War conflicts. T...

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Main Author: Hitchcock, William I. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of 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.