Description
Book SynopsisThe final section of the book depicts a spirited octogenarian whose contributions to American life continued even after more than a decade of official retirement.
Table of ContentsPreface
1. "We'll All Help Push!": Return to Johns Hopkins
2. "Opportunity Is All About You- Reach Out and Take It": Storybook Childhood in Abilene
3. "I Would Lose All Nervousness": Kansas State, Ramsay Lodge, and Marriage
4. "Love Life of the Bullfrog": Washington Bureaucrat
5. "The Greatest Possible Speed Is Imperative": Washington Administrator
6. "Our Concern Is with the Education of Men and Women Determined to Be Free": Return to Kansas State
7. "Unsophisticated, Unspoiled, Eager to Learn": The Students at Kansas State
8. "To Change the Character of the Institution": Penn State
9. "Days of Tension and Hysteria": Deans, Faculty- and Civil Liberties at Penn State
10. "How Much I Have Valued Your Counsel": A Brother in the White House
11. "Milton Eisenhower Is Not a Loner": Helen's Death and the Decision to Leave Penn State
12. "There Is Nothing Else Like It Anyplace": The Johns Hopkins University
13. "The Whole Thing Is One Massive Personal Equation": Assistants and Faculty at Johns Hopkins
14. "When the Light Is On": The Students at Johns Hopkins
15. "Goddammit, If I Had Moved to Palm Springs, This Wouldn't Be Happening!": Retirement and Return
16. "Democracy Contains the Seeds of Its Own Destruction": On the State of the Union
17. "A Smile on His Face, a Twinkle in His Eyes, and a Forward-looking Attitude": In Retirement
Appendix A: Inaugural Address, Kansas State College, September 20, 1943
Appendix B: The Presidency: Can Anyone Do the Job?
Appendix C: Eisenhower to Senator Charles McC. Mathias, October 12 and November 9, 1979
Appendix D: Violent Crime: An Overview
Appendix E: Commencement Address, The Johns Hopkins University, June 13, 1967
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
