Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Presidents Series)

The presidency of the American military hero-turned-politician is reexamined without the distortions of 1950s nostalgia to reveal a deeply flawed administration beset by McCarthyism, civil rights disturbances, and Cold War "brinksmanship." Read by Ira Claffey

For over thirty years, Tom Wicker covered American politics at the New York Times, where he began writing the Times' "In the Nation" column . He is the author of several books, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream and JFK & LBJ.

Series editor, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he has been a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He has won two Pulitzer prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.

Read by Ira Claffey.