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Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage Audiobook
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Richard Nixon was a young Navy officer when he first saw Dwight D. Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the end of the war in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket—the beginning of a political and personal relationship that lasted for nearly twenty years. Despite a gulf that separated them by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political ideology, foreign policy, and domestic goals, from civil rights to the civilian space program.
Ike and Dick relates much that occurred out of public view, such as the sensitive discussions among senior staffers concerned about Nixon's proper role when Eisenhower suffered illnesses that might have incapacitated him. Based on deep archival research and interviews with dozens of men and women who knew and worked with both men, including family members, it offers fresh views of Nixon, the striving tactician, and the legendary general, a distant man with a warm smile who could, and did, make Nixon's life miserable.
In rediscovering the circle that surrounded them and a cast that includes Billy Graham, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr., powerful newspaper columnists, early television personalities, and even the chilly young adman H.R. Haldeman, Ike and Dick provides an intimate view of America during the Cold War and of two men whose influence has never waned.
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"This book was a really interesting read. I think there was some bias towards Nixon on the part of Frank, which didn't really bother me, but it would be interesting to get more of the details about why Eisenhower waffled so much on Nixon. But all in all, very informative and well-written."
— Davida (4 out of 5 stars)
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Pithily describing their relationship as having a filial aspect, though one without much filial affection, Frank chronicles it through Ike's presidency and Nixon's presidential campaigns with the rich, inside-politics mix of rumor and maneuver in which connoisseurs of political history love to marinate.
— Booklist
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" Engaging portrait of the complicated relationship between two enigmatic leaders, albeit enigmatic in different ways. "
— Jake, 10/28/2013 -
" Good, some surprises, An interesting view of Eisenhower. "
— Sheldon, 10/8/2013 -
" Nice account of the often ignored relationship between two of the most important Americans of the 20th century. Surprisingly sympathetic to Nixon. "
— Phil, 8/3/2013 -
" Made me think more of Dick and less of Ike. "
— RJ, 6/21/2013
About Jeffrey Frank
Jeffrey Frank was a senior editor at the New Yorker, the deputy editor of the Washington Post’s Outlook section, and is the author of Ike and Dick. He has published four novels, among them the Washington Trilogy—The Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale. And he is the coauthor, with Diana Crone Frank, of a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen stories, which won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He is a contributor to the New Yorker and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian, Bookforum, and Vogue, among other publications.
About Arthur Morey
Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine “Best Of” Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.