Suggested Reading

Memoirs, Diaries, and Letters

Adams, Sherman. Firsthand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration. New York: Harper, 1961.

Brownell, Herbert. Advising Ike: The Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Cutler, Robert. No Time for Rest. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1966.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends. New York: Doubleday, 1967.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. The Eisenhower Diaries. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Ike’s Letters to a Friend, 1941–1958. Edited by Robert W. Griffith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953–1956. New York: Doubleday, 1963.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956–1961. New York: Doubleday, 1965.

Eisenhower, Milton. The President Is Calling. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

Hagerty, James C. The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course, 1954–1955. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Hays, Brooks. A Southern Moderate Speaks. Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

Killian, James R. Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1977.

Morrow, Frederick E. Black Man in the White House: A Diary of the Eisenhower Years by the Administrative Officer for Special Projects, the White House, 1955–1961. New York: Coward-McCann, 1963.

Nixon, Richard M. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Books and Articles

Ambrose, Stephen. Eisenhower. Vol. 1, Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890–1952. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

Ambrose, Stephen. Eisenhower. Vol. 2, The President, 1952–1969. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Ambrose, Stephen. Nixon. Vol. 1, The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Arnold, James R. The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America’s Intervention in Vietnam. New York: William Morrow, 1991.

Bowie, Robert R., and Richard H. Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Broadwater, Jeff. Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade. Charlotte: North Carolina University Press, 1992.

Damms, Richard. The Eisenhower Presidency, 1953–1961. New York: Routledge, 2014.

D’Este, Carlo. A Soldier’s Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002.

Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Dockrill, Saki. Eisenhower’s New-Look National Security Policy, 1953–61. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Duram, James. A Moderate among Extremists: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the School Segregation Crisis. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981.

Eisenhower, Susan. How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2020.

Greene, John Robert. I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952. Lawrence: Kansas University Press, 2017.

Greenstein, Fred. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader. New York: Basic Books, 1982.

Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joe McCarthy and the Senate. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden Book Co., 1970.

Hitchcock, William I. The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018.

Jacobs, Travis Beal. Eisenhower at Columbia. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.

Nichols, David A. Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017.

Nichols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1983.

Pach, Chester, ed. A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, 2017.

Pach, Chester J., and Elmo Richardson. The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

Perret, Geoffrey. Eisenhower. New York: Random House. 1999.

Pickett, William B. Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000.

Polsky, Andrew J., ed. The Eisenhower Presidency: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.

Shinkle, Peter. Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler. Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2018.

Snead, David L. The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

Wagner, Steven. Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.