Synopses & Reviews
The most important book on the Eisenhower presidency in over a decade, Warshaw's edited collection provides extensive new data to support the view of Eisenhower as an activist, hands-on, involved president. The volume focuses on how he used a hidden hand leadership style to direct not only policy development but crisis management. With contributions from both historians and political scientists, the work supports the current trend in revisionist literature on Eisenhower as an activist president.
Synopsis
Focusing on how Eisenhower used a hidden hand leadership style to direct both policy development and crisis management, this volume provides extensive new data to support the view of Eisenhower as an activist, hands-on, involved president.
About the Author
SHIRLEY ANNE WARSHAW is Associate Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Louis Galambos
Introduction by Shirley Anne Warshaw
An "Education in Foreign Affairs for the Future President": The Council on Foreign Relations and Dwight D. Eisenhower by Michael Wala
Eisenhower, the American Assembly, and the 1952 Elections by Travis Beal Jacobs
Eisenhower's Innovations in White House Staff Structure and Operations by Bradley H. Petterson, Jr.
Eisenhower and the Southern Federal Judiciary: The Sobeloff Nomination by Michael Mayer
The Eisenhower Administration and the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Donald W. Jackson and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
Eisenhower: Leadership in Space Policy by Giles Alston
Eisenhower and the Balanced Budget by Iwan W. Morgan
Executive-Legislative Relations: Eisenhower and Halleck by Henry Z. Scheele
Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 by Michael Graham Fry
Presidential Personality and Improvisational Decisionmaking: Eisenhower and the 1956 Hungarian Crisis by Kenneth Kitts and Betty Glad
Bibliographic Essay: Eisenhower Revisionism, 1952-1992, A Reappraisal by John Robert Greene
Name Index
Subject Index