Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Book Overview

This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America's secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers--from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. During his time in office, Eisenhower projected the image of a genial bureaucrat, but behind that public face, he ran the most efficient espionage establishment in the world, overseeing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307946606
• ISBN13: 9780307946607
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The essential read on the Subject

Ike has always been underestimated as an American President. Occurring as he did, during an era that to history has been seen as boring, and between essential administrations like Truman and JFK, Eisenhower has seemed to disappear to America. Here is a book that finally tells the whole story about Eisenhowers defense team and its use of espionage and covert ops to stop and roll back communism the world over. Ike was a confrontationalist, not a détente' man. This book, by the very esteemed popular Historian Mr. Ambrose, helps to convey the wide range of activities. From the planning of the Bay of Pigs to the overthrow of the Iranian and Guatemala governments Ike brought America to pinnacle of Cold War politics, daring to confront the communists in the same manner they confronted the third world, namely armed intervention. This is a wonderful account and the only one that can be found detailing Ike's covert career from WWII to 1960. Seth J. Frantzman