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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. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.921 Hit    ---  Available
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-621) 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.
Subject Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Influence.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
ISBN 9781439175668
1439175667

 
    
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