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Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century.(Book review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century. By Dennis E. Showalter, Ed. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2005. Notes. Appendix. Index. Pp. 235. ISBN: 1-879176-44-0.

This book contains eleven essays from a January 2005 symposium dealing with "Eisenhower and for...

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...National Security the 21st Century." It also contains a verbatim transcript of a Roundtable Discussion held during the symposium. Due to the wealth of information, I selected two essays to review in depth: "Clandestine Victory: Eisenhower and Overhead Reconnaissance in the Cold War," by R. Cargill Hall; and "Eisenhower and Space: Politics and Ideology in the Construction of the U.S. Civil Space Program," by Roger D. Launius.

In the introduction, Showalter speaks to Eisenhower's reputation and how he was considered by many as "an amiable dolt, more concerned with polishing...

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