Author Name: Childs, Marquis
Title: Eisenhower: Captive Hero, a Critical Study of the General and the President
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: NY Harcourt, Brace 1958
ISBN Number: B000J4WYOM
Illustrator: Illustrated by Dinnerstein, Harvey
Seller ID: 15893
310 pages; Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Attractive deep blue boards with bright silver and red lettering to spine. Blue endpapers. Tiny bit of rub to bottom spine tip and corner tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is lightly shelf rubbed at edges. Tiny closed tears at top spine tip. Now in protective sleeve. When a boy from Abilene, from the wrong side of the tracks, becomes the triumphant hero of history's greatest war and president of the United States, he no longer belongs to himself; he is the captive of the people who made him hero and president. Who is the leader and who the led? Marquis Childs, a widely read and respected newspaperman, gives us the first extensive critical survey of Eisenhower and his administration. It is a vivid, comprehensive and discerning book about the best-known and the least-known man in America.
Political Science
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