Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier, President, Statesman

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• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• The Candidate xv
• 1 - The Reluctant Candidate: Dwight Eisenhower in 1951 1
• 2 - Eisenhower and Robinson: The Candidate and the Publisher in the 1952 Campaign 11
• 3 - Eisenhower's Two Presidential Campaigns, 1952 and 1956 21
• The President: Domestic Policy 31
• 4 - Regardless of Station, Race, or Calling: Eisenhower and Race 33
• 5 - Whose Brief? Dwight D. Eisenhower, His Southern Friends, and the School Segregation Cases 43
• 6 - Dwight D. Eisenhower and Civil Rights Conservatism 51
• 7 - Eisenhower and the American Medical Association: A Coalition against the Elderly 57
• 8 - The Eisenhower Administration and Intergovernmental Relations 67
• 9 - The Politics of Antitrust: the Eisenhower Era 85

• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• The Candidate xv
• 1 - The Reluctant Candidate: Dwight Eisenhower in 1951 1
• 2 - Eisenhower and Robinson: The Candidate and the Publisher in the 1952 Campaign 11
• 3 - Eisenhower's Two Presidential Campaigns, 1952 and 1956 21
• The President: Domestic Policy 31
• 4 - Regardless of Station, Race, or Calling: Eisenhower and Race 33
• 5 - Whose Brief? Dwight D. Eisenhower, His Southern Friends, and the School Segregation Cases 43
• 6 - Dwight D. Eisenhower and Civil Rights Conservatism 51
• 7 - Eisenhower and the American Medical Association: A Coalition against the Elderly 57
• 8 - The Eisenhower Administration and Intergovernmental Relations 67
• 9 - The Politics of Antitrust: the Eisenhower Era 85
• 10 - The Philosophy Underlying Eisenhower's Economic Policies 99
• 11 - Eisenhower, Constitutional Practice, and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment 105
• The President: Foreign Policy 115
• 12 - Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Foreign Policymaking Process 117
• Notes 127
• 13 - Eisenhower as Commander in Chief 131
• 14 - Eisenhower's New Look Reexamined: The View from Three Decades 143
• Notes 167
• 15 - Eisenhower, Churchill, and the "Balance of Terror" 173
• 16 - Lifting the American Iron Curtain: Cultural Exchange with the Soviet Union and National Security, 1955-1956 183
• 17 - The Specter of Neutralism: Eisenhower, India, and the Problem of Nonalignment 197
• 18 - The Eisenhower Administration, Castro, and Cuba, 1959-1961 207
• 19 - Reform, Yes; Communism, No! Eisenhower's Policy on Latin American Revolutions 219
• Notes 232
• 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower and the State of Israel: Supporter or Distant Sympathizer? 237
• 21 - Congress and the Middle East: The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 249
• Notes 267
• 22 - No More Koreas: Eisenhower and Vietnam 271
• Reviewing the Eisenhower Years 281
• 23 - Eisenhower Revisionism and American Politics 283
• 24 - Eisenhower and Soviet-American Relations: Robert Fedorovich Ivanov's Dwight Eisenhower 297
• Hofstra University Cultural Center 308
• Third Annual Presidential Conference - Soldier President Statesman 309
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Conference International Honorary Committee 310
• Director's Message to Our Guests 311
• Third Annual Presidential Conference - Soldier President Statesman 313
• About the Speakers Members of the Eisenhower Family 328
• Moderators and Commentators: Hofstra University Faculty 338
• Hofstra University Cultural Center Conferences 353
• Index 355
• About the Editor 362
• About the Contributors 363