The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956 and The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

$8,800.00

Item Number: 133263

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1963-65.

Signed limited first editions of Eisenhower’s memoirs, each one of 1500 copies. Thick Octavo, two volumes, original tan cloth with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. Association copy, Waging Peace is an Advance presentation copy, inscribed by Eisenhower to Secretary of Defense, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., “Devotedly Dwight D. Eisenhower” on an Eisenhower Farm, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania bookplate. The recipient, Thomas S. Gates is mentioned numerous times in both of these volumes. “To replace Neil McElroy as Secretary of Defense I prevailed on Secretary of the Navy Tom Gates to delay his return to private life. He first took the post of Deputy Secretary for the duration of Mr. McElroy’s term and then in December assumed the post of Secretary of Defense. During his term as Secretary he had the satisfaction of seeing the Polaris, developed by the Navy under his leadership, make its first successful firings and join America’s growing arsenal.” (p. 254, The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961). Fine in the original acetate dust jackets. An exceptional association.

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