Eisenhower and the American Crusades

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Part One - A New Kind of Candidate 1
• Chapter 1 - Abilene, June 4, 1952 3
• Chapter 2 - The General's Constituency 7
• Chapter 3 - From Europe to Columbia 12
• Chapter 4 16
• Chapter 5 - The Despair of the Gop 20
• Chapter 6 - The Centrist from Mid-America 22
• Chapter 7 - Ike 26
• Chapter 8 - Truman's Troubles 30
• Chapter 9 - The Forces for Ike 33
• Chapter 10 - The Decision to Return 45
• Chapter 11 - Abilene, June 5, 1952 57
• Part Two - Launching the Crusade 61

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Part One - A New Kind of Candidate 1
• Chapter 1 - Abilene, June 4, 1952 3
• Chapter 2 - The General's Constituency 7
• Chapter 3 - From Europe to Columbia 12
• Chapter 4 16
• Chapter 5 - The Despair of the Gop 20
• Chapter 6 - The Centrist from Mid-America 22
• Chapter 7 - Ike 26
• Chapter 8 - Truman's Troubles 30
• Chapter 9 - The Forces for Ike 33
• Chapter 10 - The Decision to Return 45
• Chapter 11 - Abilene, June 5, 1952 57
• Part Two - Launching the Crusade 61
• Chapter 12 - The Road to Chicago 63
• Chapter 13 - Deception at Houston 73
• Chapter 14 - Chicago, July 1952 83
• Chapter 15 - Party Realities 102
• Chapter 16 - The Ordeal of Politics 118
• Chapter 17 - Holding the Center 134
• Chapter 18 - Time for a Change 145
• Chapter 19 - Redeeming the Pledge 150
• Chapter 20 - The Restoration 161
• Chapter 21 - Walking into Bright Sunshine 167
• Chapter 22 - The Team 174
• Chapter 23 - Floating Upstream 193
• Chapter 24 - The Politics of Jobs, Taxes and Oil 208
• Chapter 25 226
• Chapter 26 - The Senator and the President 247
• Chapter 27 - Redeeming Containment 268
• Chapter 28 - Ike and the Nationalists 294
• Chapter 29 - The Perils of Moderation 316
• Chapter 30 - The Crises of 1954 342
• Chapter 31 - Two Scorpions in a Bottle 385
• Part Three Modern Republicanism 409
• Chapter 32 the Crisis of the Gop 411
• Chapter 33 - Before San Francisco 427
• Chapter 34 - The Travail of Childe Harold 450
• Chapter 35 - Trust Ike 460
• Chapter 36 - Patience and Moderation 488
• Chapter 37 - The Shrinking Center 502
• Chapter 38 - Voyages of the Lame Duck 524
• Chapter 39 - Reflections in a Washington Snowstorm 570
• Notes 579
• Bibliography 634
• Index 651