Ike's Bluff President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

Name: Ike's Bluff President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
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ISBN: 9780316091039

ISBN-10: 0316091030

ISBN-13: 9780316091039

Edition: 2013

Authors: Evan Thomas

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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time restraining his generals and advisors who favored the strikes. Ike's gamble was of such magnitude that there could be but two outcomes: thousands of lives saved, or millions of lives lost.A tense, vivid and revisionist account of a president who was then, and still is…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 9/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.25" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Newsweek Editor-at-LargeEvan Thomashas written more than a hundred cover stories. His other books include a biography of Robert Kennedy and, most recently, theNew York TimesbestsellerSea of Thunder. The reporters on the election project team areEleanor Clift, one of Washington’s best-known political reporters and a regular on The McLaughlin Group, Washington correspondentDarren Briscoe,Mike Hastings,Nick Summers, andKatie Connolly.