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Zusatztext "Vital lessons for our time. ... Powerful and enlightening! Three Days in January sheds light on a little-known Eisenhower." Informationen zum Autor Bret Baier is the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier . He previously served as Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel and as the network’s National Security Correspondent based at the Pentagon. A recipient of the National Press Foundation’s Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, Baier is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment and Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win WWII . He lives with his family in Washington, DC. Catherine Whitney has written or collaborated on more than twenty-five books, including Framing a Life: A Family Memoir with Geraldine Ferraro and Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice with the late Judge Harold J. Rothwax. Klappentext January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation’s future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power—a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War In this acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Bret Baier illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power. Baier masterfully casts the period between Eisenhower’s now-prophetic farewell address on the evening of January 17, 1961, and Kennedy’s inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the closing act of one of modern America’s greatest leaders — during which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both the country and the next president for the challenges ahead. Three Days in January equally reveals how Eisenhower’s two terms set America on a course of unprecedented prosperity while also saving the nation from destruction in the escalating Cold War with the Soviet Union. Five decades after Ike left office, Baier makes clear that Eisenhower still offers vital lessons for our own time and stands as a lasting model of political leadership. Zusammenfassung The blockbuster #1 national bestseller! now updated with a new preface and postcript: Bret Baier! the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier ! illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power. In Three Days in January ! Bret Baier masterfully casts the period between Eisenhower’s now-prophetic farewell address on the evening of January 17! 1961! and Kennedy’s inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the closing act of one of modern America’s greatest leaders—during which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both the country and the next president for the challenges ahead. Those three days in January 1961! Baier shows! were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Ike from rural Kansas to West Point! to the battlefields of World War II! and finally to the Oval Office. When he left the White House! Dwight Eisenhower had done more than perhaps any other modern American to set the nation! in his words! “on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.” On January 17! Eisenhower spoke to the nation in one of the most remarkable farewell speeches in U.S. history. Ike looked to the future! warning Americans against the dangers of elevating partisanship above national interest! excessive government budgets (particularly deficit spending)! the expansion of the military-indu...
