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Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile,...
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Includes discussion on various domestic policy issues such as: abortion, civil rights, death penalty, Equal Rights Amendment, family values, gays in the military, gun control, health care, labor, the New Deal, social security, welfare reform and the economy. Foreign policy issues discussed include: the Cold War, communism, the
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"In this book a retired US Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower's lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores his efforts to implement a unified command in the US military. This key concept eventually led to the current organization...
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"Kenneth Osgood now chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War. These programs - which were often indistinguishable from CIA covert operations - went well beyond campaigns to foment unrest behind the Iron Curtain. The effort was global: U.S. propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world. Total Cold War also shows that Eisenhower waged his propaganda war not just abroad,...
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