Ike and Dick

Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage

Jeffrey Frank

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781416587217
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416588207
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

An absorbing account of “the most intriguing—and dysfunctional—political marriage in history” (The New York Times Book Review, front page review).

One of the most acclaimed political biographies of our time, Jeffrey Frank’s Ike and Dick takes you inside the strained and complex relationship of two fascinating American leaders—hailed as “top-drawer as political history” (Russell Baker, The New York Review of Books) and “one of the best books ever written about Richard Nixon” (Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker).

For nearly twenty years, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon shared a political and private association that deeply affected both men and their turbulent era. In a work of “compelling can’t-put-it-down history” (Joe Klein, Time columnist) filled with “marvelously cringe-inducing anecdotes” (The Wall Street Journal), Frank reveals sides of the two that you’ve never seen. He offers fresh views of the striving, uneasy young Nixon and of Eisenhower, the legendary commander in failing health, far more comfortable with international affairs than with problems besetting the United States. Behind the scenes and beyond the headlines, Ike and Dick, informed by deep archival research and dozens of interviews, provides a captivating look at the presidency and the nation. It will become essential reading for generations of Americans.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: The Men’s Club
• Chapter 2: The Ticket
• Chapter 3: The Silent Treatment
• Chapter 4: “The Greatest Moment of My Life”
• Chapter 5: President Eisenhower
• Chapter 6: Diplomatic Vistas
• Chapter 7: The Troublesome Senator
• Chapter 8: “Mr. Nixon’s War”
• Chapter 9: The Pounding
• Chapter 10: Mortal Man
• Chapter 11: Survivor
• Chapter 12: The Liberation of Richard Nixon
• Chapter 13: “Once an Oppressed People Rise”
• Chapter 14: Worn Down
• Chapter 15: Should He Resign?
• Chapter 16: Dirty Work
• Chapter 17: Unstoppable
• Chapter 18: “If You Give Me a Week, I Might Think of One”
• Chapter 19: The Good Life
• Chapter 20: The Obituary Writers
• Chapter 21: Easterners
• Chapter 22: The “Moratorium”
• Chapter 23: Private Agendas
• Chapter 24: The Rehearsal
• Chapter 25: “That Job Is So Big, the Forces Are So Great”
• Chapter 26: David and Julie
• Chapter 27: Family Ties
• Chapter 28: A Soldier’s Serenade
• Chapter 29: Victory Laps
• Chapter 30: Eulogies
• Chapter 31: What Happened Next
• Photographs
• Acknowledgments
• About Jeffrey Frank
• Notes
• Sources
• Index
• Copyright