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

Author

David A Nichols

Call Number

• 973.921 N617 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Physical Description

xiii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--NoveList.

Contents

• 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.