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Within the past decade, revisionism about Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency has become a veritable cottage industry. A torrent of books and articles has already appeared with many more undoubtedly on the way that have forced a major reassessment of the Eisenhower presidency, and especially of its foreign policy. According to the new literature, the former image of the popular general as an amiable but bumbling leader who presided over the great postponement of critical national and international issues during the 1950s can no longer be sustained by the evidence. On the contrary, writes one historian, he was intelligent, decisive, and perceptive, a strong leader who guided his administration with a deft hand and a president who led his nation peacefully through eight tortuous years of Cold War.' In the words of another scholar:
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