Who Is Like Unto Ike?: Eisenhower in the Age of Reagan

The treatment of Eisenhower by historians has become as interesting as the history of his presidency per se. Revisionists looking back on his Administration through the prisms of Vietnam, the collapse of the Great Society, and double-digit inflation have discovered a new heroic Ike, a man of quiet wisdom. Stepping straight from the pages of his own memoirs, this Ike was the last president to serve two full terms, a man who extricated America from Korea and prevented us from going into Indochi...