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The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Paperback, Revised edition)
Series: American Presidency Series
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The focus of this work is not whether Eisenhower was an active or
passive president, but how his decisions shaped American life in
the 1950s and beyond. This updated edition reaches beyond the
issues the revisionists raised: Was Eisenhower in command of his
own administration? Did he play a significant role in shaping
foreign and domestic policy? Drawing on a wide range of works
published within the past decade, the author expands the original
1979 edition of this study. In addition to new material on national
security policy, he deepens the analysis of Eisenhower's leadership
and managerial style and explores the significance of the decisions
Eisenhower made on a range of critical issues, from civil rights to
atomic testing. The author breaks with the dominant school of
Eisenhower historiography. He concludes, for example, that
Eisenhower's commitment to support South Vietnam in 1954, with its
attendant responsibilities and consequences, was far more important
- and ultimately disastrous - than his refusal to intervene with
military force in support of the French in 1954. Eisenhower's
unleashing of the CIA (in Iran, Guatemala and elsewhere) also draws
sharp criticism, as does his timid and ineffective handling of
McCarthy. Yet the author also praises Eisenhower's principled
efforts to restrain defence spending and to expand developmental
aid to Third World nations.
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