1953-1961

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1953-1961

Ike's spies

Eisenhower and the espionage establishment
2012
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.

Adlai Stevenson and the world

the life of Adlai E. Stevenson
1977

The perfect failure

Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs
1989

The great fear

the anti-Communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower
1978

National politics

the Cold War
1996
Examines the achievements of U.S. presidents who served during the Cold War, including Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon.

American high

the years of confidence, 1945-1960
1989

Where heroes hide

2002
During the summer of 1956 ten-year-old Junior Webster, his friends, and especially his father, a decorated World War II veteran, discover what heroism is all about.

Eisenhower 1956

the president's year of crisis : Suez and the brink of war
2011

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