Bibliography of Recent Publications on Eisenhower and National Security Affairs

By William B. Pickett

Summer 2008:

Bowie, Robert R. and Richard H. Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped and Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Craig, Campbell. Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Jones, Bryan Madison. Abolishing the Taboo: Eisenhower and the Permissible Use of Nuclear Weapons for National Security. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of History. Kansas State University: Manhattan, Kansas, 2008.

http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/2097/773/1/BrianJones2008.pdf

Korda, Michael. Ike: An American Hero. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.

Perry, Mark. Partners in Command: George C. Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

Pickett, William B., Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000.

Pickett, William B., “New Look or Containment? George f. Kennan and the Making of Republican National Security Strategy,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXVI, Number 2, Winter 2005: 303-312. [To read, see document below.]

Pickett, William B., ed. George F. Kennan and the Origins of Eisenhower’s New Look: An Oral History of Project Solarium. Princeton University: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Number 1, 2004. [To read, click on url in June 18 post below.]

Pickett, William B., “Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair: A Forty-Six-Year Retrospective,” in J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson, eds. Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2007: 135-153.

Pickett, William B., “Dwight D. Eisenhower: His Legacy in World Affairs,” in Virgil Dean, ed., John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006: 278-305.

Pickett, William B. “General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster: Managing National Security,” in David L. Anderson, ed. The Human Tradition in America since 1945. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003.

Pickett, William B. Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson Inc., 1995.

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New York: Anchor Books, 2008.