Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy /

Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimately resulted in McCarthy being censured and discredited.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, David A. (David Allen), 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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505 0 |a Part I. 1953: priorities -- The first confrontation -- "Don't join the book burners!" -- "You're in the army now!" -- The secretary and the senator -- The turning point -- Part II. 1954: mobilization -- "Eisenhower's first move" -- "Not fit to wear that uniform" -- Saving Robert Stevens -- Eisenhower in command -- A political D-Day -- Part III. 1954: vindication -- "A war of maneuver" -- Countdown -- The Eisenhower-McCarthy hearings -- Protecting the president -- "No sense of decency?" -- Epilogue. 
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