ISBN: 9781451686609

Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Description: xiii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 manuever"
• Countdown
• The Eisenhower-McCarthy hearings
• Protecting the president
• "No sense of decency?"
• Epilogue.

LCCN: 2016037570

Control Number: 2023025

Subjects:

• Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
• Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Influence.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
• Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.

Genre: Biographies.