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    Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
    Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
    Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
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    Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage

    Written by Jeffrey Frank

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    Richard Nixon was a young Navy officer when he first saw Dwight D.
    Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the end
    of the war in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's running
    mate on the Republican presidential ticket-the beginning of a political
    and personal relationship that lasted for nearly twenty years. Despite a
    gulf that separated them by age and temperament, their association
    evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political
    ideology, foreign policy, and domestic goals, from civil rights to the
    civilian space program. Ike and Dick relates much
    that occurred out of public view, such as the sensitive discussions
    among senior staffers concerned about Nixon's proper role when
    Eisenhower suffered illnesses that might have incapacitated him. Based
    on deep archival research and interviews with dozens of men and women
    who knew and worked with both men, including family members, it offers
    fresh views of Nixon, the striving tactician, and the legendary general,
    a distant man with a warm smile who could, and did, make Nixon's life
    miserable. In rediscovering the circle that surrounded
    them and a cast that includes Billy Graham, Senator Joseph McCarthy,
    Martin Luther King Jr., powerful newspaper columnists, early television
    personalities, and even the chilly young adman H.R. Haldeman, Ike and Dick provides an intimate view of America during the Cold War and of two men whose influence has never waned.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9781452681177
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    Jeffrey Frank

    Jeffrey Frank was a senior editor at The New Yorker, the deputy editor of The Washington Post’s Outlook section, and is the author of Ike and Dick. He has published four novels, among them the Washington Trilogy—The Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale—and is the coauthor, with Diana Crone Frank, of a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen stories, which won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He is a contributor to The New Yorker, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bookforum, and Vogue, among other publications.

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    • 5/5
      This is a well written and researched story. Ike of course, is DDEisenhower, and this book allows the reader to see the former five star general at his best and worst. He is clearly a lot smarter than given credit by many people, but he is also a racist jerk. Dick is Richard M Nixon, who was picked by Ike to be his running mate without knowing anything about him, and is clearly more progressive than we thought, except for Vietnam, where he adopted his old policies. The idiot tries to get rid of the war (Kissinger knowingly gave him stuff from the Paris Peace talks) but is done in by it.
    • 3/5
      Much of the material is already covered ground but the writing is good and the topics are put together in a readable manner. Particularly good handling of the dialogue and reactions at meetings.
    • 4/5
      This was more fun to read than I ever dreamed to hope for. It was the little bits when people got all twisted up over minor things that made it funny at times. Such petty bickering in politics.