Volume 1, Number 6 · November 14, 1963
The Sweet Music of Dwight D. Eisenhower
By Alfred Kazin
Mandate for Change, 1953-1956. The White House Years, Volume I
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Doubleday, 612 pp., $6.95
There are no surprises in the Eisenhower memoirs. Any American who in the 1950's had his normal daily fill of two or three newspapers a day, news reports every hour on the hour, the news on television at twelve, three, six, and eleven, the commentators on television, the interviews with the President and his cabinet and sometimes even Mr. Hagerty on television, the press conferences on television, the editorials, Mr. Lippmann, Messrs. Alsop, Mr. Reston, Mr. Krock, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Drummond, not to forget 'Meet The Press,' 'World Report,' 'What Washington Thinks,' the gossip in Winchell, the real story in Time, the columns in Newsweek, the closeups in Life, the Washington lowdown in Hedda Hopper and Hy Gardner—will find it all familiar, especially if since the 1950's he has read Sherman Adams on Eisenhower, Robert J. Donovan on Eisenhower, Merlo J. Pusey and Marquis Childs and Emmet Hughes on Eisenhower.
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