The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eisenhower during their tenures as national leaders in the late 1950s. The collection consists of more than 400 letters, cables and transcripts of telephone conversations. This extensive correspondence reveals the agreements and disagreements between Macmillan and Eisenhower and their approaches to the major political issues of their time. The correspondence also shows how Macmillan and Eisenhower preserved and strengthened the Anglo-American alliance at a critical time in the history of the Cold War.

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E. BRUCE GEELHOED is Director of the Centre for Middletown Studies and Professor of History at Ball State University. His published work includes Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon, 1953 to 1957 and Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957-1961 (with Anthony O. Edmonds). His academic specialities are the Eisenhower presidency and American national defense policy.

ANTHONY O. EDMONDS is Professor of History at Ball State University. He is the author of Joe Louis, The War in Vietnam and Ball State University: An Interpretative History (with E. Bruce Geelhoed). His academic specialities include US foreign policy and US sports history. He has received eight awards for outstanding teaching.

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Book Title: The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69
Editors: E. Bruce Geelhoed, Anthony O. Edmonds
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554825
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1293-0Published: 10 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51157-0Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-55482-5Published: 10 December 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 436
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, History of the Americas, Modern History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The Strange Twilight that Was Neither War nor Peace

1957: Repairing the Special Relationship

1958: The Policy Dimension of the Macmillan-Eisenhower Relationship

1959: Mac, Ike, and Mr. K.

January 1960–January 1961: Disappointment and Renewal

Epilogue

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