Buch, Englisch, 744 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1148 g
Buch, Englisch, 744 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1148 g
Reihe: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6638-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
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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- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957
Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine
Chapter 2: Foreign Aid
Part II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957
Chapter 3: "I am astonished and chagrined"
Chapter 4: "Logic and reason must operate gradually"
Chapter 5: Little Rock
Part III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958
Chapter 6: Sputnik and "the fears of our own people"
Chapter 7; NATO and the Cold War