1890-1969

This book traces the life and times of Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of the United States from 1953-1961.

Ho Chi Minh is considered an icon of the twentieth century and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. From his impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his leadership of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, he is one of the major figures of the twentieth century.

Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools.--From publisher description.

Examines the life and achievements of Dwight D. Eisenhower, discussing his childhood, his West Point education, his military service and post-war career, and his two terms as president of the United States.

Primary documents examine the key issues that presidents faced from 1953 to 1969, offering arguments both for and against each president's actions and views.

Examines the contradictory interpretations of Dwight David Eisenhower's effectiveness as a leader and analyzes his paradoxical personality--one possessed of strong passions but a weak character, noble instincts but irresolute will, and generous impluses but selfish motives.

A biography of the commander general of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II who became the thirty-fourth President of the United States.

Discussion of the three mid-twentieth-century presidents who took the United States through the Cold War, the Cuban blockade, the civil rights movement, and into the Vietnam War.

Traces the life of the thirty-fourth president, from his childhood in Kansas, through his military career, to his terms as president and his efforts to preserve American strength during the start of the Cold War.

A biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, drawing from interviews, letters and diaries, and research to examine his life as a soldier, a civilian, and president.