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A genuine and penetrating examination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, exhibiting Ike's enormous effect on modern America, the Chilly Battle, and on the presidency itself. Within a 2017 study, presidential historians positioned Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the set of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower's accomplishments were great and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times. A former general, Ike maintained the serenity: He concluded the Korean Battle, avoided a battle in Vietnam, adroitly handled a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin's fatality. He guided the Republican Get together to accept central areas of the New Deal like Social Security. He thwarted the demagoguery of McCarthy, and he advanced the plan of civil privileges for African Americans. As part of his strategy to wage and earn the Cold Battle, Eisenhower extended American military vitality, built a fearsome nuclear arsenal and launched the area race. In his famous Farewell Address, he acknowledged that Americans needed such weapons to keep global serenity - but he also admonished his citizens to remain alert to the potentially unsafe effect of the "military-industrial complex". From 1953 to 1961, nobody dominated the planet stage as do President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Era of Eisenhower is the definitive consideration of this presidency, drawing extensively on declassified materials from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA, and the Security Section and troves of unpublished documents. In his masterful consideration, Hitchcock shows how Ike formed modern America, and he astutely assesses Eisenhower's close confidants, from Attorney at law General Brownell to Secretary of Talk about Dulles. The result is an eye-opening reevaluation that points out why this "do-nothing" chief executive is rightly thought to be one of the better leaders our country has ever had.
