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If you believe of our 34th president only a small amount more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, reconsider. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to utilize it. He surface down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm". He activated the overall economy to lift up it from recession, built an interstate highway system, and, once and for all measure, turned an $8-billion deficit in 1953 into a $500-million surplus in 1960. (Ike was the previous president until Monthly bill Clinton to leave his country in the dark.) The President Eisenhower of popular creativity is a benign figure, armed with a putter and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's making is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. He mourned the fatality of his first kid and doted on his grandchildren but could, one aide recalled, "peel the varnish off a office" with his temper. Mocked as a blunderbuss, he was in fact a meticulous supervisor. Admired as a general, he was a champion of serenity. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to income nuclear war. Over and over, he considered and turned down it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren and who enforced desegregation in the colleges. Rare interviews with John Eisenhower, along with usage of recently declassified documents, make for a gripping and revealing narrative.
