Robert R. Bowie is Emeritus Director of the Center for International Studies at Harvard University. Richard H. Immerman is a Professor at the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University.
"Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
is a thorough analysis of the ideas, concepts, and objectives
behind the Eisenhower Cold War strategy based on an impressive
array of recently declassified documents in the United
States....Waging Peace is an imprtant contribution to our knowledge
of U.S. containment policy during the 1950s. The authors present a
highly sophisticated and interpretive approach to U.S. national
security policy while suggesting that there are a number of
valuable lessons to be learned from Eisenhower's methods of
tackling U.S. national security problems....Bowie and Immerman have
skillfully upheld the
revisionist conviction that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the most
influential U.S. president during the Cold War."--Diplomatic
History
"Together, the two authors have thoroughly researched and elegantly
analyzed Eisenhower's basic national security strategy....the
authors present their points and supporting evidence on the
Eisenhower administration so clearly that it is not difficult to
draw larger conclusions. This book provides an invaluable
contribution to scholarship on Eisenhower, American foreign policy,
and presidential decision making, and will be of great interest to
faculty and
students alike."--Political Science Quarterly
"Immerman and Bowie have written a stimulating, indispensable
account of the Eisenhower Administration's Cold War
strategy."--Melvyn P. Leffler, Stettinius Professor of American
History, University of Virginia
"A detached history, striving for objectivity but informed by
firsthand knowledge of people and events, Waging Peace is an
extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of U.S.
foreign policy in the 1950s. It will reshape thinking and writing
about both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations."--Ernest R.
May, Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
"It is a superb contribution to our understanding not only of the
ways in which President Eisenhower and his Administration dealt
with the challenging security and foreign policy issues of that
period but more broadly of the nature and value of responsible
leadership in the American presidency. The account the authors have
provided is authentic and informative, and will be of lasting
value."--Andrew J. Goodpaster, Co-Chair, The Atlantic Council of
the
United States
"This book is a portrait of a genuine analysis of the national
interest. Bowie was a key planner in the Eisenhower administration;
Immerman is a respected historian. With superb scholarship, they
tell how Eisenhower tamed the Korean War military buildup and
developed enduring policies of nuclear deterrence and limited
containment (while not solving the dilemmas posed by the Third
World)." --Philip Zelikow in Foreign Affairs
"Even to most historians, the inside story of Eisenhower's national
security process is not truly known, thus making this book a
required point of departure. This extraordinary work has revealed
new material about Eisenhower's masterful leadership in this
arena." --David M. Abshire, former US ambassador to NATO and
president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency
"A thorough analysis of the ideas, concepts, and objectives behind
the Eisenhower Cold War strategy based on an impressive array of
recently declassified documents in the United States....Waging
Peace is an imprtant contribution to our knowledge of U.S.
containment policy during the 1950s. The authors present a highly
sophisticated and interpretive approach to U.S. national security
policy while suggesting that there are a number of valuable
lessons
to be learned from Eisenhower's methods of tackling U.S. national
security problems....Bowie and Immerman have skillfully upheld the
revisionist conviction that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the most
influential U.S.
president during the Cold War."--Diplomatic History
"Together, the two authors have thoroughly researched and elegantly
analyzed Eisenhower's basic national security strategy....the
authors present their points and supporting evidence on the
Eisenhower administration so clearly that it is not difficult to
draw larger conclusions. This book provides an invaluable
contribution to scholarship on Eisenhower, American foreign policy,
and presidential decision making, and will be of great interest to
faculty and
students alike."--Political Science Quarterly
"Immerman and Bowie have written a stimulating, indispensable
account of the Eisenhower Administration's Cold War
strategy."--Melvyn P. Leffler, Stettinius Professor of American
History, University of Virginia
"A detached history, striving for objectivity but informed by
firsthand knowledge of people and events, Waging Peace is an
extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of U.S.
foreign policy in the 1950s. It will reshape thinking and writing
about both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations."--Ernest R.
May, Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
"It is a superb contribution to our understanding not only of the
ways in which President Eisenhower and his Administration dealt
with the challenging security and foreign policy issues of that
period but more broadly of the nature and value of responsible
leadership in the American presidency. The account the authors have
provided is authentic and informative, and will be of lasting
value."--Andrew J. Goodpaster, Co-Chair, The Atlantic Council of
the
United States
"Bowie and Immerman have given us the best study of Eisenhower's
security policy and the processes by which it was produced. Both
carry important lessons for our times and are supported by a wealth
of detail and analysis. It changed my understanding of the
Eisenhower administration."--Robert Jervis, Institute of War and
Peace Studies, Columbia University
"Waging Peace is an important contribution to Eisenhower
scholarship...the book provides a valuable synthesis combined with
a compelling exposition of the surprisingly modern policy
competition within the administration."--Perspectives on Political
Science
"A superb piece of scholarship. The very best on its
subject!"--William B. Pickett, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology
"Waging Peace is the most comprehensive treatment of the
policy-making process behind the New Look....[the book] will be
essential reading for all historians, political scientists, and
policy analysts interested in Cold War national security policy
and, more broadly, the relationship between the policy-making
process and strategy."--The Journal of Military History
"...prodigiously researched...this work constitutes a major
contribution to the historiography of the early Cold War...Bowie
and Immerman make an interesting and largely convincing case that
the differences between Eisenhower and Truman were more important
than their continuities. Their work will become indispensable for
our understanding of America's Cold War history." American Stu dies
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