The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69

by E. Geelhoed (Editor), A. Edmonds (Editor)

Overview

The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eisenhower during their tenures as national leaders in the late 1950s. The collection consists of more than 400 letters, cables and transcripts of telephone conversations. This extensive correspondence reveals the agreements and disagreements between Macmillan and Eisenhower and their approaches to the major political issues of their time. The correspondence also shows how Macmillan and Eisenhower preserved and strengthened the Anglo-American alliance at a critical time in the history of the Cold War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349511570
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

E. BRUCE GEELHOED is Director of the Centre for Middletown Studies and Professor of History at Ball State University. His published work includes Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon, 1953 to 1957 and Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957-1961 (with Anthony O. Edmonds). His academic specialities are the Eisenhower presidency and American national defense policy.

ANTHONY O. EDMONDS is Professor of History at Ball State University. He is the author of Joe Louis, The War in Vietnam and Ball State University: An Interpretative History (with E. Bruce Geelhoed). His academic specialities include US foreign policy and US sports history. He has received eight awards for outstanding teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Strange Twilight That Was Neither War Nor Peace 1957: Repairing the Special Relationship 1958: The Policy Dimension of the Macmillan-Eisenhower Relationship 1959: Ike, Mac and Mr. K 1960: Disappointment and Renewal Epilogue Note on Sources