The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The Presidency: Keeping the Peace

by Louis Galambos (Editor), Daun Van Ee (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801873560
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/30/2003
Series:	The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	704
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Louis Galambos is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World, The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II and The Public Image of Big Business in America. He is co-editor (with Alfred D. Chandler Jr.) of volume VI of the Eisenhower Papers, editor of volumes VII-XIII, and co-editor (with Daun van Ee) of volumes XIV-XVII. All are available from Johns Hopkins. Daun van Ee, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers and longtime lecturer in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of David Dudley Field and the Reconstruction of the Law. He now serves on the manuscripts staff at the Library of Congress.

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.
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.

Table of Contents

Part IV: Recession and Reform; February 1958 to May 1958
Chapter 8: "To engender confidence"
Chapter 9: "The problems inherent in this job"
Chapter 10: Restructuring for National Security
Part V: Forcing the President's Hand; June 1958 to October 1958
Chapter 11: "Take time by the forelock"
Chapter 12: American Invades the Mideast
Chapter 13: Quemoy and Matsu
Part VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959
Chapter 14: A "dreary election result"
Chapter 15: "Debate is the breath of life"

Editorial Reviews

An already well established pattern of editorial excellence continues.

From the Publisher

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.

Journal of Southern History

A splendid set of volumes.

New York Times

An editorial accomplishment of the highest order.

Saturday Review