"A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the…
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Part I. Getting a grip on Ike -- "Trouble"--"Abilene" -- "Locked in" -- "Epiphany" -- "Tested" -- Part II. Becoming supreme -- "Combat" -- "The decision" -- "Tested again" -- Part III. Becoming a leader of the free world -- "Duty, honor, party" -- "Pursuing prosperity, 1953-1961…
Part I. Duty -- Ascent -- Star power -- Call to duty -- Crusade -- Part II. An age of peril -- Scorpions in a bottle -- Confronting McCarthy -- Dark arts for a Cold War -- Asian dominoes -- A murder in Mississippi -- God, government and the middle way -- To the summit -- A formi…
At what point is criticism heard and acknowledged? By studying three direct public critiques of President Eisenhower and his administration, Henry Kissinger’s 1957 book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy , Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film, On the Beach , and the writings of Drew Pears…
