Until recent years, Dwight D. Eisenhower was not held in high regard as a President of the United States. Sandwiched between the colorful Harry S. Truman and the charismatic John F. Kennedy, “Ike” was often dismissed as an affable grandfather who spent more time playing golf than governing. In "Ike's Bluff" , historian Evan Thomas pursues the revisionist view of the Eisenhower administration disclosing that a lot more was going on under the surface than the public realized. Those who did not live during the fifties cannot really grasp the fear and paranoia that were part of that era. While the economy was booming as WWII veterans established their families, found good jobs, and bought homes in suburbia, the world lived under the threat of nuclear warfare and possible annihilation. Americans feared the Soviets and demagogues (such as Joseph McCarthy) fed this fear with the idea that there were Communists in every government agency. At the same...
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