Author Event: EVAN THOMAS, Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World

Historian Evan Thomas will be discussing and signing his newest release,

Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World. Dwight Eisenhower assumed presidency in 1953, and was seen by many as a doddering lightweight. But as Thomas argues, his bland smile and apparent simplemindedness were part of a brilliant tactic that hid the fact that he was a master of calculated duplicity. In the placid 50s, Ike managed to avoid nuclear war after making a bold bet that could have resulted in the end of the world. Thomas is the author of several other bestselling works, including The War Lovers and Sea of Thunder, and was a writer and editor at Time and Newsweek for over thirty years. WHA392