Research Catalog

Title

The Eisenhower presidency, 1953-1961 / Richard V. Damms.

Author

Damms, Richard.

Publication

Harlow : Longman, 2002.

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Details

Description

xx, 168 p. : ill. maps.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on the expanding documentary record and the most recent scholarship, this book provides students with a valuable, up-to-date synthesis of the Eisenhower presidency."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Seminar studies in history

Uniform Title

Seminar studies in history

Subject

• Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
• 1953-1961
• United States > History > 1953-1961
• United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
• United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Middle Way -- Eisenhower's Political Philosophy -- Economic Policy -- Anti-communist Crusade -- Civil Rights and the Brown Decision -- 1956 Election -- 3. Waging Peace -- New Look -- Nuclear Brinkmanship in Asia -- Containing Third World Nationalism -- Suez Crisis -- European Settlement -- 4. Holding the Line -- Battle of the Budget -- Civil Rights and Little Rock -- Sputnik -- Reorganizing the National Security State -- Recession and Retrenchment -- 1960 Election -- 5. Expanding the Cold War -- Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East -- Second Offshore Islands Crisis -- Berlin -- Disarmament and the Nuclear Test Ban -- U-2 and the Paris Summit -- Containing Castro -- 6. Assessment.

ISBN

0582368189

OCLC

• 59489047
• SCSB-12709687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library