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050 00 $aE836$b.E397 1995
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245 00 $aEisenhower :$ba centenary assessment /$cedited by Günter Bischof and Stephen E. Ambrose.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9503
300 $axx, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aEisenhower Center studies on war and peace
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Andrew J. Goodpaster -- The Genesis of The Supreme Command: Personal Impressions of Eisenhower the General / Forrest C. Pogue -- Eisenhower and the British / M. R. D. Foot -- Eisenhower's Leadership Style / Fred Greenstein -- Forging the Weapon: Eisenhower as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, 1950-1952 / Thomas M. Sisk -- Eisenhower, the Judiciary, and Desegregation: Some Reflections / Stanley I. Kutler -- Eisenhower and American Society / William L. O'Neill -- The Importance of Foreign Policy Process: Eisenhower and the National Security Council / Anna K. Nelson -- Eisenhower and the Problem of Loose Ends / H. W. Brands -- Eisenhower, the Summit, and the Austrian Treaty, 1953-1955 / Gunter Bischof -- Eisenhower, NATO, and Nuclear Weapons: The Strategy and Political Economy of Alliance Security / Robert A. Wampler -- Eisenhower and Mao's China / Gordon H. Chang -- Eisenhower and the Germans / Thomas A. Schwartz.
505 8 $aU.S.-Cuban Relations, 1953-1958: A Test of Eisenhower Revisionism / Steven F. Grover -- Epilogue: Eisenhower's Legacy / Stephen E. Ambrose.
520 $aIn observance of Dwight David Eisenhower's one-hundredth birthday in 1990, the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans sponsored a series of lectures by distinguished American and European scholars who espouse an exciting breadth of interpretation regarding the man and his times. In Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, Gunter Bischof and Stephen E.
520 8 $aAmbrose have assembled thirteen of those lectures, revised and updated, thus providing an important contribution to scholarship on the thirty-fourth United States president.
520 8 $aThe collection is truly balanced in the interpretative sense, with essays by leading revisionist and postrevisionist scholars on Eisenhower.
520 8 $aFour of the essays address Eisenhower historiography and his role as military commander, two concern his presidential domestic policies, and the remainder represent an assortment of ongoing research into select areas of his foreign policy by a younger generation of scholars, demonstrating how much the evaluation of Eisenhower's handling of foreign affairs remains in ferment. Ambrose concludes the volume with a broad summary of Eisenhower's achievements and legacies.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAs Bischof and Ambrose state in their Introduction, Eisenhower played a central role for so long and so crucial a period in twentieth-century history that his impact, contributions, successes, and failures will be subject to reinterpretation and debate for as long as Western civilization lasts.
520 8 $aHis reputation has already undergone ups and downs - from the negative opinions of his contemporaries to the enthusiasm of revisionists in the late seventies and early eighties to the more critical assessments of postrevisionist scholars in the late eighties and the nineties. Such is the inevitable cycle of scholarship, to look at old problems with new perspectives, using new documentation or innovative methods, to arrive at new conclusions.
520 8 $aThis centennial reexamination of Eisenhower's place in history will remain a milestone in years to come.
600 10 $aEisenhower, Dwight D.$q(Dwight David),$d1890-1969.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066408
650 00 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118158
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1953-1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140468
700 1 $aBischof, Günter,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88273326
700 1 $aAmbrose, Stephen E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138556
830 0 $aEisenhower Center studies on war and peace.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92009349
852 00 $bglx$hE836$i.E397 1995