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"Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader." - Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University; U.S. Senator (1997-2009)Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew.America's thirty-fourth president was belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief. This new look reveals how wrong they were. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed the atomic bomb and refused to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm." He stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, built an interstate highway system, turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960.
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Jim Newton, a longtime editor reporter, editor, columnist, bureau chief and editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, now teaches at UCLA and edits Blueprint magazine. He is the author of two critically acclaimed biographies and collaborator with Leon Panetta on the former CIA director and Secretary of Defense's memoir. His forthcoming biography of Jerry Brown, "Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown," will be released on May 12, 2020.
