Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President based on access to the entire record. It covers a wide range of subjects, including Eisenhower's rejection of the near-unanimous advice he received as President to use atomic weapons; his thinking on defense policy and the Cold War; his handling of a multitude of foreign-affairs crises; his attitudes and actions on civil rights; his views on Joseph McCarthy and on communism. Also illuminated are Eisenhower's relations with Nixon, Truman, Khrushchev, de Gaulle, and other world leaders. Ambrose provides us with an extraordinary portrait—fairminded and enormously well-informed—of the man, both decent and complex, who is increasingly regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest Presidents.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1. President-Elect, November 1952-January 11, 1953
- 2. Inauguration, January 12-January 20, 1953
- 3. Getting Started, January 21-March 31, 1953
- 4. The Chance for Peace, April 1-June 30, 1953
- 5. Peace in Korea, Coup in Iran, July 1-September 30, 1953
- 6. Atoms for Peace, October 1-December 31, 1953
- 7. Bricker, McCarthy, Bravo, Vietnam, January 1-May 7, 1954
- 8. McCarthy, Guatemala, SEATO, May 8-September 8, 1954
- 9. Quemoy and Matsu, Off-Year Elections, September 3-December 31, 1954
- 10. The Formosa Doctrine, January 1-June 20, 1955
- 11. Open Skies, June-September 1955
- 12. Heart Attack, September-December 1955
- 13. Recovery, January-March 1956
- 14. The Tyranny of the Weak, April-September 1956
- 15. Election, Suez, Hungary, September 19-December 31, 1956
- 16. The Eisenhower Doctrine, January-July 1957
- 17. The High Cost of Defense, Nuclear Testing, Civil Rights, January-July 1957
- 18. Little Rock, Sputnik, August-November 1957
- 19. Problems: Stroke, Dulles, Disarmament, Space Race, December 1957-April 1958
- 20. Lebanon, Sherman Adams, Disarmament, Quemoy and Matsu, Other Woes, May-September 1958
- 21. Elections, Test-Ban Talks, Berlin, Fidel, October 1958-February 1959
- 22. A Revival, February-June 1959
- 23. Traveling for Peace, July-December 1959
- 24. High Hopes and Unhappy Realities, January-June 1960
- 25. A Bad Summer and a Terrible Fall, July 1-November 9, 1960
- 26. Transition, November 9, 1960-January 20, 1961
- 27. The Eisenhower Presidency: An Assessment, 1953-1961
- 28. Elder Statesman, January 1961-November 1963
- 29. Johnson, Goldwater, Vietnam, November 23, 1963âMarch 1968
- 30. Taps, March 1968âMarch 28, 1969
- Acknowledgments
- Photographs
- About Stephen E. Ambrose
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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