Eisenhower Volume II
The President
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Practical Politics, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Biography & Memoir, Political
| Author: | Stephen E. Ambrose | ISBN: | 9781476745879 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster | Publication: | March 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN: | 9781476745879 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication: | March 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
