How Ike led : the principles behind Eisenhower's biggest decisions / Susan Eisenhower

By:

Eisenhower, Susan, 1951-

Language: eng Publication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2020Description: 387 p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN:

9781250238771

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.921092

LOC classification:

002 E 836 E36h 2020

Contents:

Introduction -- Accountability without caveats -- Inner struggles -- Beyond ethnic kinship -- "Born to command" -- Human problems -- "I don't think he has any politics" -- Shaping the middle way -- Ike's rules for good governance -- The interconnections between war and peace -- A strategist takes on a demagogue -- Principles and tenacity in times of crisis -- The loneliness of power -- Establishing a beachhead -- Playing the long game -- A farewell -- When no one was looking -- Epilogue.

Summary: "How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time-by a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give our country eight years

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Introduction --
Accountability without caveats --
Inner struggles --
Beyond ethnic kinship --
"Born to command" --
Human problems --
"I don't think he has any politics" --
Shaping the middle way --
Ike's rules for good governance --
The interconnections between war and peace --
A strategist takes on a demagogue --
Principles and tenacity in times of crisis --
The loneliness of power --
Establishing a beachhead --
Playing the long game --
A farewell --
When no one was looking --
Epilogue.

"How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time-by a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give our country eight years

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