{"product_id":"the-age-of-eisenhower-america-and-the-world-in-the-1950s-9781439175668","title":"The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  A page-turner masterpiece. Jim Lehrer  In a 2017 survey  presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list 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. Eisenhowers accomplishments were enormous  and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.  A former general  Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War  avoided a war in Vietnam  adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China  and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalins death. He guided the Republican Party to embrace central aspects of the New Deal like Social Security. He thwarted the demagoguery of McCarthy and he advanced the agenda of civil rights for African Americans. As part of his strategy to wage  and win  the Cold War  Eisenhower expanded American military power  built a fearsome nuclear arsenal and launched the space race. In his famous Farewell Address  he acknowledged that Americans needed such weapons in order to keep global peacebut he also admonished his citizens to remain alert to the potentially harmful influence of the military-industrial complex.  From 1953 to 1961  no one dominated the world stage as did President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Age of Eisenhower is the definitive account of this presidency  drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library  the CIA and Defense Department  and troves of unpublished documents. In his masterful account  Hitchcock shows how Ike shaped modern America  and he astutely assesses Eisenhowers close confidants  from Attorney General Brownell to Secretary of State Dulles. The result is an eye-opening reevaluation that explains why this do-nothing president is rightly regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280080363573,"sku":"ByrdShop_1439175667","price":33.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781439175668.jpg?v=1780619691","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-age-of-eisenhower-america-and-the-world-in-the-1950s-9781439175668","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}