A first-rate, brief account of a forgotten episode in Cold War geopolitics: the Suez crisis. Eisenhower emerges as a master strategist and politician. The book takes advantage of thousands of pages of declassified meeting minutes, notes, diplomatic memoranda, etc. It's fascinating to think that even the CIA thought that the Dulles bros -- Allen at CIA, John Foster at State -- positioned Ike as a smiling figurehead while they ran foreign policy, when actually Ike wrote every memo and delivered every order. After reading this, I'm almost tempted to toss my vote for LBJ aside.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2011 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
That looks really good...will have to check it out!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 28 April 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Quite good:
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
so nice you posted it twice, huh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
once for each american!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mo Dowd, waxing nostalgic over Poppy.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 June 2012 12:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
some kind of dimwit convergence going on when liberals are starting to love bush pere and conservatives, clinton.
― goole, Sunday, 10 June 2012 15:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
era of bipartisan consensus iirc
― the route is ban (k3vin k.), Sunday, 10 June 2012 15:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
luckily the Clinton years were devoid of partisan sniping
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 June 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
A review of the Poppy doc.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 June 2012 12:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Bush I was "liberal" in some ways from today's perspective, Clinton conservative/corporatist from almost any.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
LBJ. Did not expect that.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
Fuck the lot of them but fuck Jimmy Carter most of all for the whitewashing of his record.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
? why does alfred's link go to this thread?
― the route is ban (k3vin k.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's self-referential!
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/arts/television/41-george-h-w-bush-documentary-on-hbo.html?ref=arts
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
Jean Edward Smith's new Eisenhower: In War and Peace is so far the best definitive bio on Ike I've read. Thanks to his knowledge of U.S. Grant, Smith is able to compare and contrast the general's performance historically. He's also written the first thorough analysis of Ike's tenure as president of Columbia.
About to start the presidential years.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 September 2012 13:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
This looks like fun: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/books/review/ike-and-dick-by-jeffrey-frank.html?ref=review
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 February 2013 17:03 (3 months ago) Permalink
read "this" a couple days ago: one of the best popular histories I've read (Frank is a novelist). I agree with Russell Baker's judgment: it's impossible to regard Ike's insistent contempt for the young Dick Nixon without feeling a wee bit sorry for the bastard.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:40 (2 months ago) Permalink