The president and the apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon in the White House

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud tha most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what is accomplished.

We know - or think we know - that Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, and kept him at arm's length; that he did little to advance civil rights; that he sat by as Joseph McCarthy's reckless anticommunist campaign threatened to wreck his administration; and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

None of this is true. This book reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon.