President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
Little, Brown and Co.
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Featuring: Ike Eisenhower
438 pages ISBN: 0316091049 EAN: 9780316091046 Kindle: B0076DCPI4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came
to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind
the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a
brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in
his provocative examination of Ike's White House years,
Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his
bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop
playing after leaving too many fellow army officers
insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and
generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the
Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom
believed a first strike was the only means of survival,
Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one
of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the
survival of the world, or its end.
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