Eisenhower: The White House Years

Veteran journalist and author Jim Newton will discuss and sign his latest book, EISENHOWER:  THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS.  Newton presents a surprising portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower through newly discovered and declassified documents.  Critics of the thirty-fourth president belittled him as the "babysitter-in-chief," but this new book reveals just how wrong they were.

Dwight Eisenhower was given the option to use the atomic bomb in Korea, but refused to use it.  He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism. He stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and built an interstate highway system.  Eisenhower turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surpllus in 1960 -- the last president until Bill Clinton to leave his country in the black.

Jim Newton has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1989.  He is currently Editor-at-large, senior member of Times editorial board, and writer of a weekly column.  He is also the author of Justice for All:  Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, published in 2006.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Call 818-238-5620 for information.