Eisenhower (Profiles In Power) - Softcover

"Boyle has provided a balanced interpretation that should challenge students to possibly re-evaluate their views of Eisenhower." H-Net reviews "a lucid, balanced and well-argued analysis well written and very well researched in both primary and secondary sources." Iwan Morgan, History Tthe Journal of the Historical Association, Vol. 91, Iss.4, Number 304, October 2006 'A well crafted and concise synthesis that succeeds in discussing insightfully a diverse body of literature and in encouraging historians to assess Dwight Eisenhower in a new and more positive way.' Robert Mason, University of Edinburgh

Eisenhower is the president who established America as a superpower. He had already launched his reputation as the leading US military figure in the Second World War and then as supreme commander of the land forces of the newly created NATO.  This book looks at how Eisenhower held power in the political field, and to what extent his political career was a success.

This text is ideal for undergraduate courses in 20th Century American History and American Studies.