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Ike And Dick: Portrait Of A Strange Political Marriage (2013)

by Jeffrey Frank(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416587012 (ISBN13: 9781416587019)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Frank tries his hand at documenting the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and his Vice President/protege Richard Nixon from 1953 through Eisenhower's death in 1969. Frank doesn't quite get a firm sense of either man (better individual biographies of each exist) nor does he quite convince me that he quite grasped the partnership. It's obvious that the forced union was one of political expediency: something similar took place in 1988 when a GI Generation Bush tapped Baby Boomer Dan Quayle for #2. It's also very obvious that Nixon wanted more from Ike than Ike was willing to provide. Was there more? it is hard to say. The reproduced correspondence is simply too "political" to believe at face value.
review 2: An interesting look at the frail thread betwee... moren Eisenhower and Nixon, the former constantly suffering the strain of being a symbol, the latter a born strategist suffocated by servility. After Sputnik, which Ike fails to take seriously, Nixon determines to become his own man. After a bumpy ride, he, too, becomes Pres, finally earning Ike's apologetic respect. Author Frank eschews Freud, settling instead for a contrast in political styles, with the odd tug at the heartstrings. less

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