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**Based on twenty years of research, a book that rewrites the history of the Eisenhower presidency** “Irwin Gellman has emerged from years in the archives to tell the fascinating story of President Dwight Eisenhower and his relationship with his vice president, Richard Nixon. Gellman dispels the fog that has long enveloped this subject and casts new light on a critical Cold War presidency. Masterfully written, __The President and the Apprentice__ is a must-read for anyone who, like me, loves good political history.”—Allen Matusow, author of __The Unraveling of America__ More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike’s administration worked or what it accomplished. We know—or think we know—that Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, and kept him at arm’s length; that he did little to advance civil rights; that he sat by as Joseph McCarthy’s reckless anticommunist campaign threatened to wreck his administration; and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. None of this is true. __The President an

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Author

Irwin F. Gellman

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300182255

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

3.62 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14