I finished The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I Hitchcock yesterday.
It is a terrific book with many lessons for our boorish times. One lesson is that it is so even handed that the author's obvious respect and admiration for his subject makes his criticism of Eisenhower for letting the CIA off the hook on covert operations all the more devastating.
Lesson two (on this day of days) is the civility of the handover of office from Ike to JFK.
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