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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gellman, Irwin F. (1942-....)
Titre(s) : The president and the apprentice [Texte imprimé] : Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 / Irwin F. Gellman
Publication : New Haven (Mass.) ; London : Yale University press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-791 pages-16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits,
facsimiles ; 25 cm
Comprend : Part one: 1952-1957 ; The nominees -- ; The fund crisis -- ; To victory -- ; The General
as a manager -- ; The worst kind of politician -- ; The collision -- ; Truman, Eisenhower,
Nixon, and civil rights -- ; Eisenhower and civil rights: the first term -- ; Ike,
Nixon, and Dulles -- ; Nixon in Asia -- ; The battles over Asia -- ; Trouble with
good neighbors -- ; The U.S. response to neutralism -- ; Incumbent politics -- ; The
ill-will tour versus the big lie -- ; The incapacitated President -- ; The Hutschnecker
fiction -- ; Ike's decision to run -- ; Nixon's agony -- ; Stassen's folly -- ; The
land of smear and grab -- ; The Hungarian Revolution and the Freedom Fighters --Part
two: 1957-1961 ; Ike and Dick return -- ; Prelude to the struggle -- ; The Civil Rights
Act of 1957 -- ; Little Rock and its consequences -- ; The implosion -- ; The steel
solution -- ; Nixon in Africa -- ; Ike's Cold War -- ; A near-death experience --
; Inside and outside the kitchen -- ; Ike's hopes collapse -- ; Ike, Nixon, Kennedy,
and Castro --Conclusion ; Ike and Dick --Appendix ; Eisenhower's notes on the "Checkers
speech."
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-775) and index
More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency
is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little
understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We know
- or think we know - that Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon,
and kept him at arm's length; that he did little to advance civil rights; that he
sat by as Joseph McCarthy's reckless anticommunist campaign threatened to wreck his
administration; and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
None of this is true. This book reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon.
Ike trusted and relied on Nixon, sending him on many sensitive overseas missions.
Eisenhower, not Truman, desegregated the military. Eisenhower and Nixon, not Lyndon
Johnson, pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 through the Senate. Eisenhower was determined
to bring down McCarthy and did so
Sujet(s) : Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969)
Nixon, Richard M. (1913-1994)
Parlementaires -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1953-1961
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300181050. - ISBN 0300181051. - ISBN 9780300223521. - ISBN 0300223528. -
ISBN 9780300182255 (erroné). - ISBN 0300182252 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443750246
Notice n° :
FRBNF44375024
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