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The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

The Presidency: Keeping the Peace

edited by Louis Galambos and Daun Van Ee

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Volume 20
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The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961.

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 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...

The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961.

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 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 U.S. 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 volumes also include private and secret correspondence previously unavailable to scholars. Some of these items have been only recently declassified, and many appear here in print for the first time. 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.

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Reviews

An already well established pattern of editorial excellence continues.

A splendid set of volumes.

An editorial accomplishment of the highest order.

I found the documents irresistible. And they were partly so because, among other virtues, they are firmly and unpretentiously literate.

Ike the man comes through colorfully... The editorial work is up to the high standards set in previous volumes. The selections are judicious and interesting.

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Available
Trim Size
6.5
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9.375
Pages
656
ISBN
9780801866999
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32 b&w photos
Table of Contents

Part VII: Berlin and the Chance for a Summit; March 1959 to August 1959
Chapter 16: A "staunch bulwark" resigns
Chapter 17: "Source of division" among allies
Chapter 18: "These extremist approaches"
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Part VII: Berlin and the Chance for a Summit; March 1959 to August 1959
Chapter 16: A "staunch bulwark" resigns
Chapter 17: "Source of division" among allies
Chapter 18: "These extremist approaches"
Part VIII: "Friends and Foes"; September 1959 to February 1960
Chapter 19: Khrushchev in America
Chapter 20: "No substitute for personal contact"
Part IX: Shattered Dreams; March 1960 to July 1960
Chapter 21: "Progess in a knotty problem"
Chapter 22: Disaster in Paris

Author Bios
Louis Galambos
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Louis Galambos

Louis Galambos is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
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Daun Van Ee

Daun van Ee, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers, is a lecturer in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of David Dudley Field and the Reconstruction of the Law.
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