CONTENTS

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

PART ONE: MAKING IKE

  1. The Lessons of Family

  2. The Mentoring of Soldiers

  3. Learning Politics

PART TWO: THE FIRST TERM

  4. From Candidate to President

  5. Changing America’s Course

  6. Consequences

  7. Security

  8. “McCarthywasm”

  9. Revolutions

10. Heartache

11. Crisis and Revival

12. On the Edge

PART THREE: THE SECOND TERM

13. The Press of Change, the Price of Inaction

14. Nuclear Interlude

15. Many Ways to Fight

16. Loss

17. The Final Months

18. Rejection

19. Farewell

      Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Illustrations