Ike's Bluff : President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World (CD-Audio)

from DeaconBernie

Overall, this book is more a reminder than a cutting edge history. The author makes a good effort to show Granddad Ike was not all a big smile and "aw shucks." Nevertheless, the author goes to great length to describe Ike's bluff. He avoids suggesting Ike was with out principle or that his entire...

from buffalogr

This book is about Eisenhower's foreign policy/military decisions during his presidency--nothing else. I've viewed Ike's terms in office as sort of holding; this book says different--Ike saved the world from nuclear holocaust and we didn't even know it. I enjoyed this book because the author got ...

from nbmars

A number of new studies of Dwight Eisenhower have reassessed him in a much more positive light than he was previously considered. (Historical revisionism of the Eisenhower Administration is not a new phenomenon, but it has picked up speed of late.) Evan Thomas joins the latest list of scholars wh...

from buffalogr

This book is about Eisenhower's foreign policy/military decisions during his presidency--nothing else. I've viewed Ike's terms in office as sort of holding; this book says different--Ike saved the world from nuclear holocaust and we didn't even know it. I enjoyed this book because the author got ...

from DanJlaf

A more indepth book about the Time during Korean war where IKE contemplated and via background moves bluffed (or not) that If NK and USSR/Red China didn't end the korean war He would expand it into Red China with Nuclear bombs on China A interesting look back at how before Cuban Missile crisis we...