Promotional Information

Focusing on how Eisenhower used a hidden hand leadership style to direct both policy development and crisis management, this volume provides extensive new data to support the view of Eisenhower as an activist, hands-on, involved president.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Louis Galambos Introduction by Shirley Anne Warshaw An "Education in Foreign Affairs for the Future President": The Council on Foreign Relations and Dwight D. Eisenhower by Michael Wala Eisenhower, the American Assembly, and the 1952 Elections by Travis Beal Jacobs Eisenhower's Innovations in White House Staff Structure and Operations by Bradley H. Petterson, Jr. Eisenhower and the Southern Federal Judiciary: The Sobeloff Nomination by Michael Mayer The Eisenhower Administration and the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Donald W. Jackson and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr. Eisenhower: Leadership in Space Policy by Giles Alston Eisenhower and the Balanced Budget by Iwan W. Morgan Executive-Legislative Relations: Eisenhower and Halleck by Henry Z. Scheele Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 by Michael Graham Fry Presidential Personality and Improvisational Decisionmaking: Eisenhower and the 1956 Hungarian Crisis by Kenneth Kitts and Betty Glad Bibliographic Essay: Eisenhower Revisionism, 1952-1992, A Reappraisal by John Robert Greene Name Index Subject Index

About the Author

SHIRLEY ANNE WARSHAW is Associate Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College. She is also the editor of The Eisenhower Legacy (1991).