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Title: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Author: Richard V. Damms

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Dwight D. Eisenhower earned public acclaim during World War II as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe. The first Republican since Herbert Hoover to occupy the White House, Ike planned to hold the line against further expansion of federal powers. He worked assiduously to avoid being dragged into the school desegregation issue, believing in a gradualist approach to eliminating racial discrimination. Eisenhower helped steer the Supreme Court toward a middle-ground with all deliberate speed approach in Brown v. Board of Education II and hoped to allow states and local communities to work out the desegregation issue themselves. When the governor of Arkansas refused to allow black children to attend public school in Little Rock, however, Eisenhower was forced to send in National Guard troops to restore order. In the end, Eisenhowers commitment to gradualism, albeit well-intentioned, allowed those dedicated to preserving segregation to advance their agenda, ushering in the period of violence and civil rights protests that would plague the nation in the 1960s.