Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency

The most important book on the Eisenhower presidency in over a decade, Warshaw’s edited collection provides extensive new data to support the view of Eisenhower as an activist, hands-on, involved president. The volume focuses on how he used a hidden hand leadership style to direct not only policy development but crisis management. With contributions from both historians and political scientists, the work supports the current trend in revisionist literature on Eisenhower as an activist president.

SHIRLEY ANNE WARSHAW is Associate Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College. She is also the editor of The Eisenhower Legacy (1991).