Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961 by Wicker, Tom

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780805069075)

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Format: Hardcover
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961 by Wicker, Tom

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

$35.00
Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961 by Wicker, Tom

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transition

A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may view the Eisenhower years through a hazy lens of 1950s nostalgia, historians consider his presidency one of the least successful. At home there was civil rights unrest, McCarthyism, and a deteriorating economy; internationally, the Cold War was deepening. But despite his tendency toward brinksmanship, Ike would later be revered for keeping the peace. Still, his actions and policies at the onset of his career, covered by Tom Wicker, would haunt Americans of future generations.

Author: Tom Wicker, Wicker
ISBN-10: 0805069070
ISBN-13: 9780805069075
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2002
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2002 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2002 pg. 1295
Library Journal 10/01/2002 pg. 108
Booklist 10/15/2002 pg. 384
New York Times 11/24/2002 pg. 26
New York Times 12/08/2002 pg. 67
By Tom Wicker
By Tom Wicker
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For over thirty years, Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times, where he began writing the Times's In the Nation column. He was the author of several books, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream and JFK & LBJ, as well as two novels.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., was arguably the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he has been a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He served as special assistant to John F. Kennedy; won two Pulitzer Prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966); and in 1998 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.

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