Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
by Thomas, Evan
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316091049
- ISBN 13
- 9780316091046
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About This Item
New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. x, 484 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent. Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- 114028
- Title
- Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
- Author
- Thomas, Evan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0316091049
- ISBN 13
- 9780316091046
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, Boston, London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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