Authors: Jim Newton
Richardson, Elmo.
The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979.
Ridgway, Matthew B.
The Korean War: How We Met the Challenge, How All-Out Asian War Was Averted, Why MacArthur Was Dismissed, Why Today’s War Objectives Must Be Limited
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
Roberts, Sam.
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
. New York: Random House, 2001.
Roosevelt, Kermit.
Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
Salinger, J. D.
The Catcher in the Rye
. New York: Little, Brown, 1951.
Sanders, Coyne Steven, and Tom Gilbert.
Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2001.
Schlesinger, Robert.
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters from FDR to George W. Bush
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.
Sixsmith, E. K. G.
Eisenhower as Military Commander
. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.
Slater, Ellis D.
The Ike I Knew
. Ellis D. Slater Trust, 1980.
Snead, David L.
The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War
. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Socolofsky, Homer E., and Huber Self.
Historical Atlas of Kansas
. 2nd ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Stern, Seth, and Stephen Wermeil.
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Stone, I. F.
The Haunted Fifties
. London: Merlin Press, 1963.
Summersby, Kay.
Eisenhower Was My Boss
. New York: Dell, 1948.
Taubman, William.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Taylor, Maxwell.
The Uncertain Trumpet
. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959.
Terzian, Philip.
Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century
. New York: Encounter Books, 2010.
Thompson, Nicholas.
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
. New York: Henry Holt, 2009.
Warren, Earl.
The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren
. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1977.
Weiner, Tim.
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Weintraub, Stanley.
MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero
. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Weir, William.
Guerrilla Warfare: Irregular Warfare in the Twentieth Century
. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2008.
Wicker, Tom.
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2006.
Wilber, Donald N.
Regime Change in Iran: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952–August 1953
. Nottingham, U.K.: Spokesman, 2006.
Wilson, Sloan.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
Woodhouse, C. M.
Something Ventured
. London: Granada, 1982.
Zeilig, Leo.
Patrice Lumumba: Africa’s Lost Leader
. London: Haus, 2008.
Zelizer, Julian E.
Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—from World War II to the War on Terrorism
. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
PAPERS
Sherman Adams Papers, Rauner Library, Dartmouth College (Adams’s papers include the unpublished and unedited version of his memoir)
George E. Allen Papers, DDEPL
Robert Anderson Papers, DDEPL
William J. Brennan Jr. Papers, MD, LOC
Gladys Harding Brooks Papers, DDEPL
Herbert Brownell Jr. Papers, DDEPL
Harold H. Burton Papers, MD, LOC
Robert Cutler Papers, DDEPL
John Foster Dulles Papers, 1951–59, DDEPL
Barbara Eisenhower Papers, DDEPL
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Papers as President, Main White House File, DDEPL
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Post-presidential Papers, DDEPL
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pre-presidential Papers, DDEPL
Felix Frankfurter Papers, MD, LOC
Alfred M. Gruenther Papers, DDEPL
James Hagerty Papers, DDEPL
Edward E. “Swede” Hazlett Papers, DDEPL
C. D. Jackson Papers, 1931–67, DDEPL
Robert Jackson Papers, MD, LOC
George Kistiakowsky Papers, DDEPL
Henry Cabot Lodge Papers, DDEPL
Douglas MacArthur Papers, DDEPL
Malcolm Moos Papers, DDEPL
Richard Nixon Papers, Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, Calif.
Robert Oppenheimer Papers, MD, LOC
George Patton Papers, MD, LOC
Wilton B. Persons Papers, DDEPL
William E. Robinson Papers, DDEPL
Walter Bedell Smith Papers, DDEPL
George Sokolsky Papers, HI
Thomas E. Stephens Records, DDEPL
Earl Warren Papers, MD, LOC (Most of Warren’s relationship with Eisenhower is captured in these papers. Some details relating to his appointment as chief justice are kept with his gubernatorial papers at the California State Archives in Sacramento.)
Sinclair Weeks Papers, Rauner Library, Dartmouth College
Personal Papers of Ann Whitman, DDEPL (these are Whitman’s personal papers, as distinct from her official file)
Ralph E. Williams Papers, DDEPL
Howard Young Papers, DDEPL
Boston Globe
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Chicago Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cold War International History Project Bulletin
Commentary
Dartmouth College Alumni Magazine
Harper’s Magazine
Indianapolis News
Journal of Cold War Studies
Kansas City Star
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains
Los Angeles Times
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Nation
National Review
New Leader
Newsweek
New York Herald
(and
Herald Tribune)
New York Times
Petaluma News
Playboy
Pravda
Progressive
Reviews in American History
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Saturday Evening Post
Stars and Stripes
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Time
Washington Post
Washington Times
NOTABLE ARTICLES
Brichoux, David, and Deborah J. Gerner. “The United States and the 1958 Rebellion in Indonesia.” Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 2002.
Chernus, Ira. “Ambrose on Eisenhower: The Impact of a Single Faulty Quotation.”
History News Network
, May 17, 2010.
Clune, Lori. “Stephen Ambrose’s Falsifications of the Rosenberg Execution.”
History News Network
, May 17, 2010.
Launius, Roger D. “Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age.” NASA History, article is undated but site updated as of Feb. 2, 2005.
Prados, John. “The Perfect Failure.”
Quarterly Journal of Military History
19, no. 3 (2007).
Rives, Timothy D. “Ambrose and Eisenhower: A View from the Stacks in Abilene.”
History News Network
, May 17, 2010.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. “The Ike Age Revisited.”
Reviews in American History
11, no. 1 (March 1983).
Spiller, Roger J. “Not War but Like War: The American Intervention in Lebanon.” Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Jan. 1981.
Wade, Gary H. “Rapid Deployment Logistics: Lebanon 1958.” Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Oct. 1984.
Weiss, Leonard. “Atoms for Peace.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
59, no. 6 (Nov. 1, 2003).
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
American Military History
. Army Historical Series. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1988.
Greenfield, Kent Roberts (general editor).
Command Decisions
. Prepared by the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959.
Haines, Gerald K., and Robert E. Leggett, eds.
CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union
. Washington, D.C.: Government Reprints Press, 2001.
Pedlow, Gregory W., and Donald E. Welzenbach.
The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954–1974
. Washington, D.C.: CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
Republican National Committee. “The 1952 Elections: A Statistical Analysis.” Oct. 1953.
Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee.
Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age
. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 1957 (copy obtained from National Security Council Files 5724 [2], box 22, Policy Papers Subseries, NSC Series, White House Office, Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, DDEPL).
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1954, Through May 6, 1954
. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954.
U.S. Department of State. Committee on Atomic Energy.
A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy
. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1946.
U.S. Senate.
Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations. Congressional Record
. 83rd Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 1953–54. Made public in 2003.
U.S. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.
The United States and the Korean Problem: Documents, 1943–1953
. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1953.
ORAL HISTORIES
Adams, Sherman, by Ed Edwin, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1972.
Briggs, Ellis, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1973.
Brownell, Herbert, Feb. 24, 1977, DDEPL. Also Earl Warren Oral History Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Eisenhower, Barbara, by Carol Hegeman and Lawrence Eckert, Aug. 20 and Sept. 12, 1983, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., by D. Clayton James, Aug. 26, 1967, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., by Raymond Henle, July 13, 1967, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., by Philip Crowl, July 28, 1964, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., by Ed Edwin, July 20, 1967, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., by Forrest C. Pogue, July 28, 1962, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., interviews by Pat Morin, 1965–67 (although these are not formal oral histories, Morin preserved transcripts, which are housed at DDEPL and filed with the Post-presidential Papers).
Eisenhower, Mamie, by Maclyn Burg and John Whitman, July 20, 1972, DDEPL.
Eisenhower, Milton, by John Luter, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1967.
Hagerty, James, Eisenhower Administration, by Ed Edwin, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1968.
Hauge, Gabriel, Eisenhower Administration, by Ed Edwin, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1972.
Henderson, Loy, Eisenhower Administration, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1972.
Moos, Malcolm, by T. H. Baker, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1972.
O’Connor, Roderic, Eisenhower Administration, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University (obtained through DDEPL), 1973.
Warren, Earl, Earl Warren Oral History Project, University of California, Berkeley. Williams, Ralph, by James Leyerzapf, DDEPL, 1988.
Second Lieutenant Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike’s West Point yearbook, the Howitzer, joked that he viewed himself as “the handsomest man in the Corps.” Courtesy of the Eisenhower Library