This seminar study examines the Eisenhower presidency. Â The author argues that the presidency marked an important stage in the evolution of modern America but left a decidedly mixed legacy for future presidents. Â ÂDomestically EisenhowerÂpursued a 'middle way'. Â Imbued with a profound district of politics and politicians Eisenhower sought as much as possible to concentrate public policy making in the hands of an enlightened elite of public and private experts. Â Internationally Eisenhower's policies exacerbated the nuclear arms race institutionalised the Cold War and extended the East-West struggles to new arenas in the Third World. Â ÂThis new account offers an up-to-date synthesis of this newly emerging literature and reviews Eisenhower's record - from the mishandling of the Civil Rights movement to the escalation of the arms race and the intensification of the Cold War. Language: English