![]() ![]() ![]() The Age of Eisenhower is the definitive account of this presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents. In his famous Farewell Address, he acknowledged that Americans needed such weapons in order to keep global peace-but he also admonished his citizens to remain alert to the potentially harmful influence of the “military-industrial complex.”įrom 1953 to 1961, no one dominated the world stage as did President Dwight D. As part of his strategy to wage, and win, the Cold War, Eisenhower expanded American military power, built a fearsome nuclear arsenal and launched the space race. He thwarted the demagoguery of McCarthy and he advanced the agenda of civil rights for African Americans. He guided the Republican Party to embrace central aspects of the New Deal like Social Security. Eisenhower’s accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.Ī former general, Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War, avoided a war in Vietnam, adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. ![]() Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. ![]()
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