The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s

Available

The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s

(2018)

By: Hitchcock, William I.

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

973.921/HITCHCOCK,W

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	973.921/HITCHCOCK,W	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018

EDITION

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

DESCRIPTION

xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9781439175668, 1439175667 :

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

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