Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held on to the Presidency

by Clarence G. Lasby

Book Overview

When delegates to the 1956 Republican Convention sang "Ike for four more years," they were celebrating the President's health as much as his political agenda. Dwight Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack less than a year before, and his decision to seek a second term symbolized for many Americans Ike's victory over a nearly fatal illness. This, it seems, was the intended effect.

Previous Eisenhower biographers have touched on his heart condition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608222
• ISBN13: 9780700608225
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"