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Author Hitchcock, William I., author.

Title The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973.921 HIT    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B EISENHOWER DWIGHT H    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973.921 HIT    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.921 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xx, 650 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [531]-621) and index.
Contents Part I. Duty -- Ascent -- Star power -- Call to duty -- Crusade -- Part II. An age of peril -- Scorpions in a bottle -- Confronting McCarthy -- Dark arts for a Cold War -- Asian dominoes -- Taking on Jim Crow -- God, government and the middle way -- To the summit -- A formidable indifference -- Double cross at Suez -- Part III. Race, rockets and revolution -- The color line -- Ike's missile crisis -- Contending with Khrushchev -- Secret wars in the third world -- U-2 -- Fighting to the finish -- A new generation.
Summary Explores the Eisenhower administration, including President Eisenhower's diplomatic accomplishments, his influence on the Cold War, and his warning against the military-industrial complex.
Subject Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Influence.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. (OCoLC)fst00037714
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1953-1961
ISBN 9781439175668 (hardcover)
1439175667 (hardcover)
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