Product Description
Fine unread condition black boards with neon red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket.
Includes Author Dedication; Introduction: Finding Ike; Prologue: The Visit; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation; Notes; Index and About the Author.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates.
Signed, inscribed and dated (1/15/17) by the author, Bret Baier, with thick black marker on the second free front half title page (see photographs).
All pages are in as new condition and the spine/binding is in as new unread condition (see photographs).
"In this absorbing book, Bret Baier describes my grandfather's famous farewell address as the 'final mission' of a 'man of war who craved peace.
' Three Days in January brilliantly captures the drama of January 1961, when Eisenhower passed the torch to JFK, and offers timeless guidance for a peaceful, prosperous, and powerful America.
Three Days in January is the BEST book on Eisenhower - and the best book written about a presidential speech - to appear in a very long time.
" - David Eisenhower, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Public Service at the Annenberg School and author of Eisenhower: At War, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
"Bret Baier has given history a great gift: a riveting account of Dwight Eisenhower's determination to call on his vast experience to prepare America for the perils of the new war - the Cold War.
" - Tom Brokaw.
"Bret Baier has written a great book about a great president.
Three Days in January brings us the true story behind Eisenhower's legendary farewell address.
and the lessons in leadership that 'Ike' offers to today's era of polarization and gridlock.
" - Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
"January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F.
Kennedy, takes power -- a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
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 presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike's last days in power.
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.
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.
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