TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Evan
TI  - Ike's bluff: President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world 
SN  - 9780316091046
AV  - 002 E 835 T455i 2012
U1  - 973.921092 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Co.
KW  - Eisenhower, Dwight D.
KW  - Eisenhower, Dwight David,
KW  - Cold war
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - National security
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Nuclear warfare
KW  - Estadistas estadounidenses
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1953-1961
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Política y gobierno
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-467) and index
N2  - Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent. Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37444
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