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Also by Evan Thomas:

Being Nixon, June 2015
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Ike's Bluff, October 2012
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Playbook 2012, December 2011
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The War Lovers, May 2010
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A Long Time Coming, January 2009
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Sea of Thunder, November 2006
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Ike's Bluff
Evan Thomas

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
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Non-Fiction Biography

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.

This is the story of how he won.

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