The President and the apprentice : Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 /
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 di...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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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."