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REVIEWS

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Paul H. Lewis
The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961
by Irwin F. Gellman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)

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rofessor Gellman's jumbo tome (791 pages, including notes,
bibliography, and index) is intended as the definitive revisionist history of the Eisenhower administration, with special
emphasis on the relationship between the president and his vice
president, Richard Nixon. Gellman claims that most of the writing about that relationship has been wrong and biased. Liberal
historians, political scientists, and journalists could not forgive
Eisenhower for twice defeating their idol, Adlai Stevenson, and
so have dismissed him as a dull, inarticulate, and ineffectual president. But their real vitriol has been directed against Nixon, who
was more aggressively partisan and-worse yet-one of those
most responsible for exposing Alger Hiss as a communist spy.
Gellman has worked on this topic for twenty years and has
previously published a book on Nixon that was nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize. In his research he consulted the Nixon Presidential
Library, the Eisenhower archives, the Truman and Johnson presidential libraries, the National Archives, several college libraries,
and the papers of various people involved with Eisenhower and
Nixon between 1952 and 1961.
Gellman's main concern is to dispel the common notion that
Eisenhower disliked and distrusted Nixon and gave him few

Paul H. Lewis is emeritus professor of political science at Tulane University.
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