Ike's bluff : President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world

The Resource Ike's bluff : President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world
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Ike's bluff : President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world
Title remainder
President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world
Statement of responsibility
Evan Thomas
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent. Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.--From publisher description
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
973.921092
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E835
LC item number
.T44 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
973.921 T455i
Series statement
APL - Hazel Witmer Wheeler memorial collection
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