THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS: MANDATE FOR CHANGE, 1953-1956- USED , BCE GOOD

• Title: The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953–1956

• Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (Garden City, New York)

• Publication Date: 1963

• Format: Thick, oversized hardcover with dust jacket and map endpapers.

Historical & Content Background

Published just two years after he left the Oval Office, Mandate for Change is the first volume of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s two-part presidential memoirs (the second volume being Waging Peace).

As a primary historical document, this book is immense. Writing with the pragmatic, methodical voice of a five-star general turned statesman, "Ike" chronicles his first term in office. He takes readers behind closed doors to explain the immense geopolitical chess moves of the mid-1950s, including the winding down of the Korean War, the rise of the Cold War and the Suez Crisis, the internal threat of McCarthyism, and the launch of the Interstate Highway System.

The gorgeous cartographic endpapers (shown in your second photo) depict a stylistically rendered map of North America and the Atlantic Ocean, setting a serious, global stage for the history told within the pages. He appropriately dedicated the work to his wife, Mamie.