Dwight D Eisenhower by Tom Wicker

Dwight D Eisenhower by Tom Wicker

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.

Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times from 1960 to the early 1990s, when he succeeded Arthur Krock as writer of the In the Nation column. He is the author of several books of nonfiction, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, and JFK and LBJ, as well as several novels.

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ISBN 13	9780805069075
ISBN 10	0805069070
Title	Dwight D Eisenhower
Author	Tom Wicker
Series	American Presidents Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Times Books
Year published	2002-11-05
Number of pages	158
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