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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
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Overview
The blockbuster #1 national bestseller
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.
“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on Eisenhower, but as one of the classics of presidential history. … Impeccably researched, the book is nothing short of extraordinary. What a triumph!”—JAY WINIK, New York Times bestselling author of April 1865 and 1944
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-industrial complex, and the creeping political power of special interests. Seeking to ready a new generation for power, Eisenhower intensely advised the forty-three-year-old Kennedy before the inauguration.
Baier also reveals how Eisenhower’s two terms changed America forever for the better, and demonstrates how today Ike offers us the model of principled leadership that polls say is so missing in politics. Three Days in January forever makes clear that Eisenhower, an often forgotten giant of U.S. history, still offers vital lessons for our own time and stands as a lasting example of political leadership at its most effective and honorable.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780062569066 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 01/10/2017 |
Series: | Three Days Series |
Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 368 |
Sales rank: | 139,533 |
File size: | 23 MB |
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About the Author

Bret Baier is the chief political anchor for Fox News Channel and the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, seen five days a week on Fox News Channel. Before assuming the anchor role, Bret served as Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel between 2006 and 2009. Prior to being named Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel, Bret served as National Security Correspondent based at the Pentagon, reporting on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from 2001 to 2006. He reported from Iraq twelve times and Afghanistan thirteen times. In his career Bret has traveled the world with various administration dignitaries and military officials, reporting from seventy-four countries. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission, and Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition xiii
Introduction: Finding Ike xv
Prologue: The Visit 1
Part 1 The Setting
1 The Measure of Ike 15
2 Ike in Command 42
3 A Nonpolitician in the Political Arena 61
4 Ike's Hidden Card 84
Part 2 The Speech
5 Farewell in Black and White 117
6 Intimacy and Interdependence 131
7 The Hostile Landscape 154
8 Dust to Dust 183
9 The Military-Industrial Complex 195
Part 3 The Final Mission
10 An Unknowable Successor 213
11 The Day Before 235
12 The Passage 247
13 A Spring Day at Camp David 258
The Last Word: 2017 287
Postscript 295
Acknowledgments 299
Appendix: Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation 301
Notes 309
Index 333
About the Author 351