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<p>A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, <i>Eisenhower 1956</i> is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential election, with Great Britain, France, and Israel invading Egypt while the Soviet Union ruthlessly crushed rebellion in Hungary.</p> <p>David A. Nichols, a leading expert on Eisenhower’s presidency, draws on hundreds of documents declassified in the last thirty years, enabling the reader to look over Ike’s shoulder and follow him day by day, sometimes hour by hour as he grappled with the greatest international crisis of his presidency. The author uses formerly top secret minutes of National Security Council and Oval Office meetings to illuminate a crisis that threatened to escalate into global conflict.</p> <p>Nichols shows how two life-threatening illnesses—Eisenhower’s heart attack in September 1955 and his abdominal surgery in June 1956—took the president out of action at critical moments and contributed to missteps by his administration.</p> <p>In 1956, more than tw

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Author

David Allen Nichols

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439139332

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14