The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

"Gellman is a prodigious researcher . . . in a fascinating chapter on Nixon's health, Gellman breaks new ground in understanding the man."-Timothy Naftali, New York Times Book Review "Gellman . . . is a prodigious researcher. His new book can be mined for many gems about the American presidency, US policies in the 1950s, and the evolution of the cold after Stalin's death.He also charts the tides, tensions and treacheries of American politics. . . . Future scholars will need to take account of his evidence.... Gellman's decades of parsing written records earn him the right to remind other writers that "they are supposed to think critically about their sources."-Robert Zoellick, Financial Times "An important work, and one sure to cause controversy."-Publishers Weekly "Irwin F. Gellman puts the record straight in this compelling book."-Tim Stanley, Prospect "Intriguingly contrarian . . . a scholarly work, but a combative one too. Reinforced by what he has mined from all those archives, Gellman debunks myths, he challenges the comfortably liberal narrative, and when people have lied he says so."-Andrew Stuttaford, Standpoint Finalist for the 2016 Plutarch Award given by the Biographers International Organization "The conclusions and research are irrefutable. Gellman is spot-on about Ike's management style, his and Nixon's working relationship, his strengths as a bureaucratic leader, his civil rights record, his handling with Nixon of McCarthy, his impact on domestic policy, his handling of the Sputnik episode, and his dominance of and leadership in foreign policy. Overall, a wonderfully succinct summary of very complex stuff. This will be, hands down, the most important book ever written on Nixon's vice presidency and his relationship to the president."-David A. Nichols, author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution "Irwin Gellman, the world's premier Nixon scholar, breaks new ground with his fascinating portrayal of Nixon's unprecedented and still unacknowledged activist vice-presidency and his complicated relationship with a brilliant President Eisenhower. Gellman's narrative is based on his unsurpassed knowledge of a vast array of valuable but often underused source materials."-Melvin Small, author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon "Irv Gellman gives us a clear and carefully researched look at Ike as a leader and mentor of Richard Nixon. He provides plenty of new material that provides a fresh look at this important relationship."-George P. Shultz, author of Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State "The President and the Apprentice fulfills its ambitions so successfully that no future study of the Eisenhower-Nixon years can afford to ignore what Gellman has accomplished. His insights illuminate every significant issue from Ike's election in 1952 to the rise of Nixon as his successor, all with awesome scholarship. This is a major work of history and biography."-Herbert S. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America "The President and the Apprentice is an important, illuminating book. There has been a great deal written about Eisenhower and Nixon in recent years, but none of us has done the archival work done by Irv Gellman, or even close."-Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff