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Eisenhower
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Jean Edward Smith |
In his magisterial bestseller FDR, Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwi… |
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Eisenhower
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Jim Newton |
Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground do… |
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The passage of power
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Robert A. Caro |
Continues Johnson's career from the 1960 elections through his vice presidency to the first months of his presidency. |
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Red moon rising
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Matthew Brzezinski |
The behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space. Khrushchev was frustrated at America's U-2 spy plane, which flew too high to be shot down. But Rus… |
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1960
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David Pietrusza |
"1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does."'Chicago Sun-Times Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged acc… |
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The President and the apprentice
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Irwin F. Gellman |
More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's ad… |
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High noon
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Glenn Frankel |
xvi, 379 pages : 25 cm |
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Ike's spies
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Richard H. Immerman,Stephen E. Ambrose |
An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community. |
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