Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas
President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
An intimate, narrative account of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency that argues his mastery of restraint and strategic deception—his “bluff”—helped steer the Cold War away from nuclear catastrophe. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews, it traces his use of nuclear deterrence, brinkmanship, covert CIA operations, and diplomatic negotiation in crises such as the Korean armistice, the Suez invasion, the Hungarian uprising, the Taiwan Strait standoffs and the U-2 affair, showing how his military background, personal temperament, and distrust of career politicians shaped pragmatic, sometimes secretive choices. The book assesses both his successes in containing Soviet expansion and the moral and political costs of covert action, concluding with his prescient warnings about the military-industrial complex and the complicated legacy of a leader who preferred quiet strength to public spectacle.
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- 2012
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- American
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- English
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