Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction: Eisenhower, Yesterday and Today 1Chester J. Pach
Part I General of the Army 7
1 Years of Preparation, 1890–1941 9Jonathan Reed Winkler
2 Eisenhower in World War II 26Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
3 Eisenhower and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1949 57Thomas Bruscino
4 Eisenhower as NATO Commander 73Andrew M. Johnston
Part II President 93
Ike’s America 95
5 The Baby Boom, Youth Culture, and Family Life 96Carolyn Herbst Lewis
6 Cities and Suburbs in the Eisenhower Era 114Amy L. Scott
7 American Politics at Mid-Century 134Gary W. Reichard
Leadership and Politics 151
8 Eisenhower Republicanism 152Steven Wagner
9 Leadership and Decision-Making 169Richard V. Damms
Domestic Policy 189
10 Eisenhower, the Red Scare, and Domestic Anticommunism 190Andrew J. Falk
11 Eisenhower and African American Civil Rights 207David A. Nichols
12 Managing the Economy 227Iwan Morgan
13 Eisenhower and Social Welfare 246Andrew Morris
14 Natural Resources, Conservation, and the Environment 264J. Brooks Flippen
National Security and the Cold War 280
15 Eisenhower and the Korean War 281James I. Matray
16 Eisenhower’s National Security Policies 308David L. Snead
17 Eisenhower, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control 327Philip Nash
18. Eisenhower, the CIA, and Covert Action 350James Callanan
19 Propaganda and Public Diplomacy 370Kenneth Osgood
America and the World 394
20 NATO, Western Europe, and the Eisenhower Administration 395Robert T. Davis II
21 Special or Not So Special? Anglo-American Relations 417Michael F. Hopkins
22 Eisenhower and Latin America 435Stephen G. Rabe
23 Eisenhower, China, and Taiwan 453Scott Kaufman
24 Eisenhower and the Third World 472Kevin E. Grimm
25 Eisenhower, Indochina, and Vietnam 494Kathryn C. Statler
26 The Arab–Israeli Dispute and the Middle East 517Peter L. Hahn
Part III Citizen 535
27 After the Presidency 537Stephen T. Pfeffer
Index 555