The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

Item Number: 139742

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1963.

First edition of volume one of President Eisenhower’s memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial map endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed opposite the half-title page by the author on a Gettysburg bookplate dated November 7, 1963, “For Bernard M. Stanley with warm regard and best wishes from his friend Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by Asprey.

This is the story of President Eisenhower’s first administration. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the major figures of the twentieth century, writes an account of the events, as he saw them, leading up to a sweeping mandate, and then pursues the theme of change in the years 1953-1956