9781416587019 - Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage von Frank, Jeffrey (14 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Reis (Author photograph) and Walter Kellher ( (illustrator). Second printing [stated]. viii, [2],434, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Mary and Bill Lawler with all good wishers Jeffrey Frank. Jeffrey Frank is a journalist and author from Washington, D.C. He was the deputy editor of the Outlook Section in the Washington Post. Frank worked for the Post for almost 12 years. Frank has written four novels: The Creep, The Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale. He is the author of Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage. He worked at The Washington Post and The Washington Star. Derived from a Kirkus review: Former Washington Post editor Frank delves into political biography, focusing on the complicated relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Though both private men from similar backgrounds, Eisenhower and Nixon differed in many ways. When Eisenhower chose Nixon, then a senator from California, as his running mate in 1952, it seemed to be more the choice of political expediency. The pair's long relationship was marked by "a fluctuating, unspoken level of discomfort," and they were never close. The author portrays Nixon's vice presidency as often frustrating and stressful. The president's health issues made a Nixon succession a real possibility on multiple occasions. Throughout, Frank highlights the major events of the Eisenhower presidency, the following presidential elections and beyond, filtering them effectively through the lens of the Eisenhower-Nixon dynamic. A well-researched and -written history that will satisfy both Eisenhower and Nixon aficionados. The author does a fine job delineating the complex personalities of both men, and he provides novelistic touches befitting his background. At one point, he describes the colorful political figure Clare Boothe Luce as "beautiful, charming, and slightly mad," and, at another, he thoughtfully compares Nixon to an Anthony Trollope character. A groundbreaking narrative of the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, from the politics that divided them to the marriage that united their families. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had a political and private relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, a tie that survived hurtful slights, tense misunderstandings, and the distance between them in age and temperament. Yet the two men brought out the best and worst in each other, and their association had important consequences for their respective presidencies. In Ike and Dick, Jeffrey Frank rediscovers these two compelling figures with the sensitivity of a novelist and the discipline of a historian. He offers a fresh view of the younger Nixon as a striving tactician, as well as the ever more perplexing person that he became. He portrays Eisenhower, the legendary soldier, as a cold, even vain man with a warm smile whose sound instincts about war and peace far outpaced his understanding of the changes occurring in his own country. Eisenhower and Nixon shared striking characteristics: high intelligence, cunning, and an aversion to confrontation, especially with each other. Ike and Dick, informed by dozens of interviews and deep archival research, traces the path of their relationship in a dangerous world of recurring crises as Nixon's ambitions grew and Eisenhower was struck by a series of debilitating illnesses. And, as the 1968 election cycle approached and the war in Vietnam roiled the country, it shows why Eisenhower, mortally ill and despite his doubts, supported Nixon's final attempt to win the White House, a change influenced by a family matter: his grandson David's courtship of Nixon's daughter Julie, teenagers in love who understood the political stakes of their union.