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Sloan (political science, Univ. of Houston) has made another contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Eisenhower's presidency. During the late 1950s, Eisenhower was the object of widespread disdain among liberal intellectuals who perceived him as a do-nothing president, more interested in playing golf than in providing leadership. This was, in their view, in sharp contrast to the more vigorous presidencies of Roosevelt and Truman. As Sloan observes,...

This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent of Martin's influence on the course of American economic history was significant: arguably he has done more to strengthen and reform the nation's most important financial institutions than has any other individual. Chairman of the...

The essays in The United States in the 1980s, written by a group of renowned and widely respected specialists, are a major contribution to a balanced discussion of the choices that lie ahead. The authors analyze the central issues, describe the policy options open to the country, and recommend specific courses of action to deal with or mitigate the problems confronting the United States--in recognition of the fact that the major problems of the new...