A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower

Notes on Contributors x
 
Introduction: Eisenhower, Yesterday and Today 1
Chester J. Pach
 
Part I General of the Army 7
 
1 Years of Preparation, 1890-1941 9
Jonathan Reed Winkler
 
2 Eisenhower in World War II 26
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
 
3 Eisenhower and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1949 57
Thomas Bruscino
 
4 Eisenhower as NATO Commander 73
Andrew M. Johnston
 
Part II President 93
 
Ike's America 95
 
5 The Baby Boom, Youth Culture, and Family Life 96
Carolyn Herbst Lewis
 
6 Cities and Suburbs in the Eisenhower Era 114
Amy L. Scott
 
7 American Politics at Mid-Century 134
Gary W. Reichard
 
Leadership and Politics 151
 
8 Eisenhower Republicanism 152
Steven Wagner
 
9 Leadership and Decision-Making 169
Richard V. Damms
 
Domestic Policy 189
 
10 Eisenhower, the Red Scare, and Domestic Anticommunism 190
Andrew J. Falk
 
11 Eisenhower and African American Civil Rights 207
David A. Nichols
 
12 Managing the Economy 227
Iwan Morgan
 
13 Eisenhower and Social Welfare 246
Andrew Morris
 
14 Natural Resources, Conservation, and the Environment 264
J. Brooks Flippen
 
National Security and the Cold War 280
 
15 Eisenhower and the Korean War 281
James I. Matray
 
16 Eisenhower's National Security Policies 308
David L. Snead
 
17 Eisenhower, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control 327
Philip Nash
 
18. Eisenhower, the CIA, and Covert Action 350
James Callanan
 
19 Propaganda and Public Diplomacy 370
Kenneth Osgood
 
America and the World 394
 
20 NATO, Western Europe, and the Eisenhower Administration 395
Robert T. Davis II
 
21 Special or Not So Special? Anglo-American Relations 417
Michael F. Hopkins
 
22 Eisenhower and Latin America 435
Stephen G. Rabe
 
23 Eisenhower, China, and Taiwan 453
Scott Kaufman
 
24 Eisenhower and

Chester J. Pach is a faculty member in the History Department at Ohio University. He is a preeminent historian in the field of U.S. foreign relations and a leading authority on the Eisenhower presidency. Pach is the author of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (rev. ed.); Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945-1950; and The Johnson Years. He continues to update the section on Eisenhower's foreign policy for the online version of American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature.