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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A page-turner masterpiece.” —Jim Lehrer
In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower’s accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.
A former general, Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War, avoided a war in Vietnam, adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. He guided the Republican Party to embrace central aspects of the New Deal like Social Security. He thwarted the demagoguery of McCarthy and he advanced the agenda of civil rights for African Americans. As part of his strategy to wage, and win, the Cold War, Eisenhower expanded American military power, built a fearsome nuclear arsenal and launched the space race. In his famous Farewell Address, he acknowledged that Americans needed such weapons in order to keep global peace—but he also admonished his citizens to remain alert to the potentially harmful influence of the “military-industrial complex.”
From 1953 to 1961, no one dominated the world stage as did President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Age of Eisenhower is the definitive account of this presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents. In his masterful account, Hitchcock shows how Ike shaped modern America, and he astutely assesses Eisenhower’s close confidants, from Attorney General Brownell to Secretary of State Dulles. The result is an eye-opening reevaluation that explains why this “do-nothing” president is rightly regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had.
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"A superb synthesis…consistently fair in the conclusions it reaches. By so successfully showing what’s known about the Eisenhower era, this book more than any other will shape how the future remembers it.”
— John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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“Discusses the full range of challenges that occupied Eisenhower across the eight years of his presidency…[A] rich narrative.”
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“Outstanding.”
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“A splendid biography.”
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“A complete and persuasive assessment.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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A New York Times bestseller
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About William I. Hitchcock
William I. Hitchcock is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Eisenhower and The Bitter Road to Freedom, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A graduate of Kenyon College and Yale University, he is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the Randolph Compton Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs.
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.