The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.

Author: Hitchcock, William I. author.

Edition Statement:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Imprint:New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Descriptionxx, 650 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Part I. Duty -- Ascent -- Star power -- Call to duty -- Crusade -- Part II. An age of peril -- Scorpions in a bottle -- Confronting McCarthy -- Dark arts for a Cold War -- Asian dominoes -- A murder in Mississippi -- God, government and the middle way -- To the summit -- A formidable indifference -- Double cross at Suez -- Part III. Race, rockets and revolution -- The color line -- Ike's missile crisis -- Contending with Khrushchev -- Secret wars in the third world -- Shoot down -- Fighting to the finish -- A new generation.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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