Eisenhower The White House Years

Name: Eisenhower The White House Years
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ISBN: 9780385523530

ISBN-10: 038552353X

ISBN-13: 9780385523530

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jim Newton

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If you think of our thirty-fourth president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, ;McCarthywasm. ; He stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, built an interstate highway system, and, for good measure, turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. (Ike was the last president until Bill Clinton to leave his country in the black.) The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter and little…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/4/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English