Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2001. Hardcover. As New. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, grey cloth. Fine condition. Covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 2001. Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801867185 9780801867187 [US]

ISBN10: 0801867185, ISBN13: 9780801867187, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj, grey cloth. Fine condition. Covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 1950s, Affairs, American, Foreign, History, Policy, Political, Politics, Presidential, 0801867185
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ISBN10: 0801867185, ISBN13: 9780801867187, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0801867185, ISBN13: 9780801867187, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Hardcover Hardcover. Part of a series of works featuring the papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, this volume contains documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower worked hard to hold the focus of American national politics on the two major objectives he had set for his presidency in 1952: to sustain the policy of containment without precipitating a war with the Soviet Union and to reduce the role of the federal government in US domestic affairs. In both cases, events at home and abroad intruded - diverting attention to immediate problems, endangering the peace, and forcing the White House to devote most of its leadership to the crises of the day. As president during this tense period, Eisenhower maintained an extensive and revealing correspondence with prominent individuals as well as with personal friends. These letters, together with the occasional entries made in his diary, shed considerable light upon the major national concerns of the 1950s. The volume also includes private and secret correspondence previously unavailable to scholars.Taken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders. Taken as a whole, the Eisenho ...
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