Eisenhower and the Cold War — Scriptorium Liberum

Eisenhower and the Cold War Economy

✍ Jr. William M. McClenahan; William H. Becker 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Johns Hopkins University Press 🌐 English

Throughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The essential issue he addressed was how the country would pay for the deepening Cold War and the extent to

The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and t

📁 The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War

✍ David Snead 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Ohio State University Press 🌐 English

As the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepared by a committee of leading scientific, business, and military experts. The panel, called the Gaither Committee in recognition of its first chair, H. Ro

GAITHER COMMITTEE: EISENHOWER COLD WAR

📁 GAITHER COMMITTEE: EISENHOWER COLD WAR

✍ David Snead 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Ohio State University Press 🌐 English

As the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepared by a committee of leading scientific, business, and military experts. The panel, called the Gaither Committee in recognition of its first chair, H. Ro

Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in

📁 Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua: 1953-1961

✍ Michael D. Gambone 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Praeger 🌐 English

<p>During the Cold War era, the United States faced the prospect of expanding its power in Central America. But we miscalculated—grievously. After 1945, Central America teemed with leaders willing to alter the region's quasi-colonial status. Some, like Fidel Castro, sought out revolution to shatter

Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA and

📁 Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA and Cold War Aerial Espionage

✍ Dino A. Brugioni 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 US Naval Institute Press 🌐 English

Dino A. Brugioni, author of the best-selling account of the Cuban Missile crisis, Eyeball to Eyeball, draws on his long CIA career as one of the world's premier experts on aerial reconnaissance to provide the inside story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's efforts to use spy planes and satellites t

Harold Stassen: Eisenhower, the Cold War

📁 Harold Stassen: Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament

✍ Lawrence S. Kaplan 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 University Press of Kentucky 🌐 English

Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security