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Three Days in January
Bret Baier
Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
William Morrow
January 2017
On Sale: January 10, 2017
368 pages
ISBN: 0062569031
EAN: 9780062569035
Kindle: B01ER6LJFM
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“THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG
TIME”*: BRET BAIER’S “RIVETING ACCOUNT” † OF IKE’S FINAL
MISSION IS “A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
HISTORY” † † January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure
the nation's future before his young successor, John F.
Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary
leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the
darkening Cold War Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel
and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with
Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet
underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking
readers into Ike's last days in power. Baier masterfully
casts the period between Eisenhower's now-prophetic farewell
address on the evening of January 17, 1961, and Kennedy's
inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the closing
act of one of modern America's greatest leaders — during
which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both the country
and the next president for the challenges ahead. Those three days in January 1961, Baier shows, were the
culmination of a lifetime of service that took Ike from
rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War
II, and finally to the Oval Office. When he left the White
House, Dwight Eisenhower had done more than perhaps any
other modern American to set the nation, in his words, "on
our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment." On January 17, Eisenhower spoke to the nation in one of the
most remarkable farewell speeches in U.S. history. Ike
looked to the future, warning Americans against the dangers
of elevating partisanship above national interest, excessive
government budgets (particularly deficit spending), the
expansion of the military-industrial complex, and the
creeping political power of special interests. Seeking to
ready a new generation for power, Eisenhower intensely
advised the forty-three-year-old Kennedy before the
inauguration. Baier also reveals how Eisenhower's two terms changed
America forever for the better — perhaps even saved the
world from destruction — and demonstrates how today Ike
offers us the model of principled leadership that polls say
is so missing in politics. The Supreme Commander of Allied
Forces during World War II, Eisenhower only reluctantly
stepped into politics. As president, Ike successfully guided
the country out of a dangerous war in Korea, peacefully
through the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war with the
Soviets, and into one of the greatest economic booms in
world history. Five decades later, Baier's Three Days in January forever
makes clear that Eisenhower, an often forgotten giant of
U.S. history, still offers vital lessons for our own time
and stands as a lasting example of political leadership at
its most effective and honorable. *David Eisenhower † Tom Brokaw †† Douglas Brinkley
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