Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Closing Mission (Three Days Sequence)

The blockbuster #1 nationwide bestseller

Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox Information Channel and the Anchor and Government Editor of Particular Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary but underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s final days in energy.

“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not solely one of many masterworks on Eisenhower, however as one of many classics of presidential historical past. … Impeccably researched, the e-book is nothing wanting extraordinary. What a triumph!”—JAY WINIK, New York Occasions bestselling creator of April 1865 and 1944

In Three Days in January, Bret Baier masterfully casts the interval between Eisenhower’s now-prophetic farewell tackle on the night of January 17, 1961, and Kennedy’s inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 because the closing act of one in every of trendy America’s biggest leaders—throughout which Eisenhower urgently sought to arrange each the nation and the following president for the challenges forward.

These three days in January 1961, Baier reveals, had been the end result of a lifetime of service that took Ike from rural Kansas to West Level, to the battlefields of World Struggle II, and eventually to the Oval Workplace. When he left the White Home, Dwight Eisenhower had completed greater than maybe another trendy American to set the nation, in his phrases, “on our charted course towards everlasting peace and human betterment.”

On January 17, Eisenhower spoke to the nation in one of the outstanding farewell speeches in U.S. historical past. Ike seemed to the longer term, warning Individuals towards the hazards of elevating partisanship above nationwide curiosity, extreme authorities budgets (notably deficit spending), the growth of the military-industrial complicated, and the creeping political energy of particular pursuits. Looking for to prepared a brand new technology for energy, Eisenhower intensely suggested the forty-three-year-old Kennedy earlier than the inauguration.

Baier additionally reveals how Eisenhower’s two phrases modified America without end for the higher, and demonstrates how at this time Ike affords us the mannequin of principled management that polls say is so lacking in politics. Three Days in January without end makes clear that Eisenhower, an usually forgotten big of U.S. historical past, nonetheless affords very important classes for our personal time and stands as a long-lasting instance of political management at its simplest and honorable.