Eisenhower Years
Автор:
Michael S Mayer
From his crucial role in support of Brown v. Board of Education to the National Defense Education Ac...
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From his crucial role in support of Brown v. Board of Education to the National Defense Education Act, The Eisenhower Years provides a well-balanced study of these politically charged years. Biographical entries on key figures of the Eisenhower era, such as Allen W. Dulles, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Rosa Parks, combine with speeches such as the Military Industrial Complex speech, the Open Skies proposal, the disturbance at Little Rock address, Eisenhower Doctrine, and his speech after the Soviet launch of Sputnik to give an in-depth look at the executive actions of this administration. Biographical entries include: -William J. Brennan -Roy M. Cohn -John Foster Dulles -Orval Faubus -J. William Fulbright -John Kenneth Galbraith -Clare Booth Luce -Thurgood Marshall -Joseph R. McCarthy -George Meany -Arthur Miller -Richard M. Nixon -Rosa Parks -Norman Vincent Peale -Francis Gary Powers -Sam T. Rayburn -Earl Warren.
