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The papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The Presidency: Keeping the Peace (Volume 19) by Dwight David Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee, United States. President (1953-1961 : Eisenhower) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961.Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower worked hard to hold the focus of American national politics on the two major objectives he had set for his presidency in 1952: to sustain the policy of containment without precipitating a war with the Soviet Union and to reduce the role of the federal government in U.S. domestic affairs. In both cases, events at home and abroad intruded—diverting attention to immediate problems, endangering the peace, and forcing the White House to devote most of its leadership to the crises of the day. As president during this tense period, Eisenhower maintained an extensive and revealing correspondence with prominent individuals as well as with personal friends. These letters, together with the occasional
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- Author
- Dwight David Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee, United States. President (1953-1961 : Eisenhower)
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801847523
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Humanities