The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

by William I. Hitchcock

Americans looked to him during the 1950s as a model of loyalty, dignity, and decency. For a period of nearly two decades, from the cataclysms of the Second World War, through the prosperous if anxious days of the early cold war, until the transfer of power to a younger generation, Eisenhower lent his name to the age. And his people knew they had lived in the presence of greatness.