Customer Review: Ike has always been underestimated as an American President. Occurring as he did, during an era that to history has been seen as boring, and between essential administrations like Truman and JFK, Eisenhower has seemed to disappear to America. Here is a book that finally tells the whole story about... more info
Customer Review: This is a good, factual balanced account which brings to bear all the relevant facts and leaves out any ideological bias. It's also very well written and makes for an easy read.
Customer Review: This is a somewhat dry recounting of the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles, who was Eisenhower's Secretary of State. I did not know what drove Eisenhower's foreign policy, but Immerman's book showed it was a combination of Eisenhower's practicability and Dulles's theory. Dulles had been... more info
Customer Review: Mr McMahan from Georgia makes an excellent point with which I concur: this book is all about Ike's organization of the National Security Council and its methods of advising him. Reviews of it suggested to me that it might treat the substance of his Cold War decisions in the 1953-54 period. Instead,... more info
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