Research Catalog

Title

Waging peace, 1956-1961; the White House years [by] Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Author

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Publication

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965.

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Additional Authors

Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007

Description

xxiii, 741 p. illus., col. maps (on lining papers) ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

President Eisenhower describes the events and decisions of his second term.

Alternative Title

• White House years.
• White House years

Subject

• 1953-1961
• Politics
• United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
• United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961
• Government

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book 1. The political campaign, 1956 -- Build-up to Suez -- Twenty busy days -- Book 2. A sequence of summits -- A family of controversies -- Civil rights -- Renewed tension in the Middle East -- Sputnik and a sputtering economy -- A drastic personal test -- Book 3. Science and defense -- Landing in Lebanon -- The troubled islands again : Quemoy and Matsu, 1958 -- The departure of Sherman Adams -- Book 4. Berlin -- John Foster Dulles -- Principally politics -- Collapse at Geneva -- Personal diplomacy. Book 5. The steel strike and the economic record -- Disarmament -- Friends -- Amigos -- Book six. The summit that never was -- Turbulent summer -- Twilight -- Afterthoughts.

LCCN

^^^65019046^

OCLC

• 1095772
• SCSB-11550116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library