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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: President and the apprentice
    sub title: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961
  name:
    name part: Gellman, Irwin F.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 791 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: More than half a century after Dwight Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We know, or think we know, that Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, and kept him at arm's length, that he did little to advance civil rights, that he sat by as Joseph McCarthy's reckless anticommunist campaign threatened to wreck his administration and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. None of this is true. This book reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon. Ike trusted and relied on Nixon, sending him on many sensitive overseas missions. Eisenhower, not Truman, desegregated the military. Eisenhower and Nixon, not Lyndon Johnson, pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 through the Senate. Eisenhower was determined to bring down McCarthy and did so.
  table of contents: Part one: 1952-1957. The nominees -- The fund crisis -- To victory -- The General as a manager -- The worst kind of politician -- The collision -- Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and civil rights -- Eisenhower and civil rights: the first term -- Ike, Nixon, and Dulles -- Nixon in Asia -- The battles over Asia -- Trouble with good neighbors -- The U.S. response to neutralism -- Incumbent politics -- The ill-will tour versus the big lie -- The incapacitated President -- The Hutschnecker fiction -- Ike's decision to run -- Nixon's agony -- Stassen's folly -- the land of smear and grab -- The Hungarian revolution and the freedom fighters -- Part two: 1957-1961. Ike and Dick return -- Prelude to the struggle -- The Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- Little Rock and its consequences -- The implosion -- The steel solution -- Nixon in Africa -- Ike's cold war -- A near-death experience -- Inside and outside the kitchen -- Ike's hopes collapse -- Ike, Nixon, Kennedy, and Castro -- Conclusion: Ike and Dick -- Appendix: Eisenhower's notes on the "Checkers speech."
  note: Irwin F. Gellman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
      name part: 1890-1969
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous)
      name part: 1913-1994
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1953
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1953-1961
  classification: E835 .G45 2015
  classification: 973.921
  identifier: 9780300181050 (hardback)
  identifier: 0300181051 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780300182255 (electronic book)
  identifier: 0300182252 (electronic book)
  identifier: 2015935011
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150529
    record change date: 20170928132627.0
    record identifier: in00003528140