Waging peace, 1956-1961 : the White House years / Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Author/creator Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Format Book
Edition[Limited Edition].
Publication InfoGarden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1965.
Descriptionxxiii, 741 pages : illustrations, color maps (on lining papers) portraits ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Variant title White House years
SeriesThe White House Years
White House Years. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Book 1. The political campaign, 1956 -- Build-up to Suez -- Twenty busy days -- Book 2. A sequence of summits -- A family of controversies -- Civil rights -- Renewed tension in the Middle East -- Sputnik and a sputtering economy -- A drastic personal test -- Book 3. Science and defense -- Landing in Lebanon -- The troubled islands again : Quemoy and Matsu, 1958 -- The departure of Sherman Adams -- Book 4. Berlin -- John Foster Dulles -- Principally politics -- Collapse at Geneva -- Personal diplomacy. Book 5. The steel strike and the economic record -- Disarmament -- Friends -- Amigos -- Book six. The summit that never was -- Turbulent summer -- Twilight -- Afterthoughts.
Abstract President Eisenhower describes the events and decisions of his second term.
Local noteAutographed "Dwight Eisenhower." Number 365. Stuart Wright Book Collection #91.13. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General noteIncludes index.
General note"This edition is limited to one thousand five hundred copies, of which one thousand four hundred thirty four are signed and numbered."
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Issued in other formOnline version: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Waging peace, 1956-1961. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection E835.E47 1965B ✔ Available Request Material