The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Book Information: Book Webpage at the Miller Center; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.
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Author Information:
- William Hitchcock, Department of History, University of Virginia.
- William I. Hitchcock, Wikipedia.
- William I. Hitchcock, C-SPAN.
- William I. Hitchcock. France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William I. Hitchcock. The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present. New York: Doubleday (Penguin Random House), 2003. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William I. Hitchcock. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Video and Audio: William I. Hitchcock
- William I. Hitchcock, "U.S. Containment Strategy After World War II," University of Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 06 September 2010.
- Aftermath of World War II, Wikipedia.
- George F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram," 1946, Wikisource.
- George F. Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," 1947, Wikisource.
- X Article, Wikipedia.
- George F. Kennan (1904–2005), Wikipedia.
- Harry S. Truman, "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine," March 12, 1947.
Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. - Truman Doctrine, March 1947, Wikipedia.
- Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, ERP), began April 1948, Wikipedia.
- Berlin Blockade, June 1948 – May 1949, Wikipedia.
- North Atlantic Treaty, April 1949, Wikipedia.
- Will Hitchcock, "The Ike Age," John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 02 May 2013.
- Jeffrey Frank, Will Hitchcock, Douglas Blackmon, "The New Eisenhower," American Forum, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, recorded 05 April 2016.
- YouTube video.
- Event Information, Miller Center, University of Virginia.
- Jeffrey Frank, Wikipedia.
- Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker.
- Jeffrey Frank. Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
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- William Hitchcock and Bruce Carlson, "Searching for Eisenhower," My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (podcast), 18 March 2018.
- YouTube audio.
- Bruce Carlson, My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, Wordpress.
- Bruce Carlson, Quora.
- William Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower," The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 26 March 2018.
- Event Information, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- William Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: Strategic Patience and the Cold War in the 1950s," Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 02 May 2018.
- Event Information, Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
- William Hitchcock and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with William Hitchcock," C-SPAN, 03 May 2018.
- William Hitchcock and Dan Glickman, "The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series," The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., 14 May 2018.
- YouTube video.
- Dan Glickman, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program.
- Dan Glickman (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
- Will Hitchcock and Brian Balogh, "BookStory Author Livestream," BackStory Radio, 30 August 2018.
- BookStory, BackStory Radio.
- BackStory Radio.
- Brian Balogh, Department of History, University of Virginia.
- Brian Balogh, Wikipedia.
- Will Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World of the 1950s," Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 20 September 2018.
- Warning: poor audio.
- YouTube video.
- Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University.
- William I. Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s," Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, 27 September 2018.
- Video & Audio, Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
- Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society.
- William Hitchcock and Ann Compton, "White House History with Ann Compton: The Age of Eisenhower Lecture with William Hitchcock," White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 21 February 2019.
- Hitchcock's talk begins at time 9:10.
- Event Information, White House Historical Association.
- Ann Compton (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
Book Reviews:
- Roundtable Review, H-Diplo, Hnet.org, Volume XX, No. 24, 11 February 2019.
This includes an introduction by Melvyn P. Leffler, reviews by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Darren Dochuk, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Kathryn C. Statler, and a reply by William I. Hitchcock.
Wikipedia Articles:
- Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969).
- 1952 United States presidential election, Eisenhower versus Stevenson. ~~~~~
- Richard Nixon, Vice President of the U.S., January 1953 – January 1961.
- John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, January 1953 – April 1959.
- Herbert Brownell Jr., U.S. Attorney General, January 1953 – October 1957.
- George M. Humphrey, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, January 1953 – July 1957.
- Charles Erwin Wilson ("Engine Charlie"), U.S. Secretary of Defense, January 1953 – October 1957.
- Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence, February 1953 – November 1961.
- Robert Cutler, National Security Advisor, January 1953 – April 1955 and January 1957 – June 1958.
- Gordon Gray, National Security Advisor, June 1958 – January 1961.
- Sherman Adams, White House Chief of Staff, January 1953 – October 1958.
- Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, October 1953 – June 1969.
- Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of Dwight Eisenhower. ~~~~~
- United States in the 1950s.
- Post–World War II economic expansion.
- McCarthyism.
- Civil rights movement.
- Brown v Board of Education, 1954.
- Civil Rights Act of 1957.
- Little Rock Nine, desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Interstate Highway System.
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.
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- Cold War (1947–1953).
- Cold War (1953–1962).
- Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, September 1953 – October 1964.
- Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
- First Indochina War, 1946 – 1954.
- Second Indochina War, 1955 – 1975.
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
- 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
- First Taiwan Strait Crisis, September 1954 – May 1955.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, August – September 1958. - Space Race.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956, October – November 1956.
- Suez Crisis, October – November 1956.
- Eisenhower Doctrine (regarding the Middle East), January 1957.
- Sputnik crisis.
- History of Indonesia: Sukarno's presidency, 1945 – 1967.
- Cuban Revolution, 1953 – 1959.
- Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 1961.
- 1960 U-2 incident, May 1960.
- History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Independence and the Congo Crisis (1960–65).
- Congo Crisis, 1960 – 1965.
- History of Laos since 1945: North Vietnamese invasion (1958–1959). ~~~~~
- 1960 United States presidential election, Kennedy versus Nixon.
- Eisenhower's farewell address, 17 January 1961.