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Book SynopsisApocalypse Management explains Dwight Eisenhower's eight years of self-defeating cold war policies by analyzing the pattern of Eisenhower's private and public discourse, a pattern that still dominates U.S. foreign policy, keeping us in the same state of national insecurity that marked the Eisenhower era.
Trade Review"Here is the first authoritative study of Eisenhower and his presidential moment which accounts properly for the decisive aspect of religion in his conception of the cold war and its conduct. Chernus has done us all an immense, intellectual favor." -- Anders Stephanson * Columbia University *
"In this provocative and deeply absorbing book, Ira Chernus argues powerfully that the Eisenhower administration, through its use of what he calls apocalypse management, consistently undermined Americas sense of security. It is a paradigm that endures, moreover, which is what gives this study its great contemporary resonance. A most impressive work." -- Fredrik Longevall * Cornell University *
"Chernus challenges the reader by presenting a different, more negative view of Eisenhower that will serve as an antidote to the image of the wise, cautious, and benign man that historians have come to know." —
Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContents Introduction: On Eisenhower And Discourse 000 Part I: The Origins Of Apocalypse Management 1 Ideological Foundations 000 2 "The Chance For Peace" 000 3 Candor And Korea 000 4 The New Look And "Atoms For Peace" 000 Part II: The Trials Of Apocalypse Management 5 The Trap 000 6 The President And The Bomb, 1953 - 1955 000 Part III: The Triumph Of Apocalypse Management 7 The Formosa Straits Crisis 000 8 "Open Skies" 000 9 The Spirit Of Geneva 000 Part IV: The Ironies Of Apocalypse Management 10 Beyond Geneva 000 11 Mutual Security And The Military Budget 000 12 The President And The Bomb, 1956 - 1960 000 13 The Ironies Of Disarmament 000 Conclusion: The National Insecurity State 000 Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
