When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it
would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term,
and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his
fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party
standard bearers would be Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II
and Supreme Allied Commander in World War II, Dwight D.
Eisenhower.. I Like Ike tells the story of a critical election
fought between two avowedly reluctant warriors, including Truman's
efforts to recruit Eisenhower as the candidate of the Democrat
Party-to a finish that, for all the partisan wrangling, had more to
do with the extraordinary popularity of the former general, who,
along with Stevenson, was seen to be somehow above politics. In the
first book to analyze the 1952 election in its entirety, political
historian John Robert Greene looks in detail at how Stevenson and
Eisenhower faced demands that they run for an office neither
originally wanted. He examines the campaigns of their
opponents-Harry Truman and Robert Taft, but also Estes Kefauver,
Richard B. Russell, Averell Harriman and Earl Warren. Richard
Nixon's famous "Checkers Speech," Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist
campaign, and television as a new medium for news and political
commercials-each figured in the election in its own way; and
drawing in depth on the Eisenhower, Stevenson, Taft and Nixon
papers, Greene traces how. I Like Ike is a compelling account of
how an America fearful of a Communist threat elected a war hero and
brought an end to twenty years of Democrat control of the White
House. In an era of political ferment, it also makes a timely and
persuasive case for the importance of the election of 1952 not only
to the Eisenhower Administration, but also to the development of
presidential politics well into the future.
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