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Article: Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2006
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Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century. By Dennis E. Showalter, Ed. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2005. Notes. Appendix. Index. Pp. 235. ISBN: 1-879176-44-0.
This book contains eleven essays from a January 2005 symposium dealing with "Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century." It also contains a verbatim transcript of a Roundtable Discussion held during the symposium. Due to the wealth of information, I selected two essays to review in depth: "Clandestine Victory: Eisenhower and Overhead Reconnaissance in the Cold War," by R. Cargill Hall; and "Eisenhower and Space: Politics and Ideology in the Construction of the ...