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.