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Reminiscences of John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower
Anecdotes and personal recollections of Dwight Eisenhower's military career and Presidency; Korea; inauguration, 1953; development of military weapons; Geneva Conference.
So Far from God
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.
Eisenhower's Heart Attack
Previous Eisenhower biographers have touched on his heart condition, but Clarence Lasby is the first to examine the impact of the president's health on the nation. He offers a dramatic revisionist account of the events surrounding the president's 1955 heart attack and subsequent efforts by the president and his staff to minimize its political impact. Drawing on newly opened medical records and personal papers of Eisenhower's physicians, Lasby challenges virtually everything we have believed about the president's heart attack. Most disturbingly, he has discovered that the president's personal physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, misdiagnosed the attack as a gastrointestinal problem and waited ten ho...
Reminiscences of John S.D. Eisenhower
father's decision-making process; relationships with, performances of Bedell Smith, George Catlett Marshall, John Foster Dulles, Arthur Radford, Matthew Ridgway, Omar Bradley, Charlie Wilson, John O'Daniel, Al Gruenther, Allen Dulles; Eisenhower's problems with appointments; views on nuclear weaponry; Potsdam Conference, 1945; tactical problems with Dien Bien Phu; formation of South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO); U2 incident.
Eisenhower Memorial
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Mamie Doud Eisenhower
A biography of Mamie Eisenhower, who accomplished many things that were overlooked by her contemporaries and used her popularity to the benefit of her husband while changing the role of first lady, and covers her experience as an army wife and how it prepared her for the White House during the McCarthy era.
The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The best single volume available on the Eisenhower presidency". -- Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Eisenhower.
Michael Beschloss on the Cold War
Riveting accounts of the Cold War power struggles from the New York Times–bestselling author and "nation's leading presidential historian" ( Newsweek). The Crisis Years: A national bestseller on the complex relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, this "definitive" history covers the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built, and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war (David Remnick, The New Yorker). "Impressively researched and engrossingly narrated." — Los Angeles Times Mayday: On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA U-2 spy...
