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Jonathan Shaw - Rising Star, Setting Sun: The Departure of Ike, the Arrival of J.F.K., and the Continuing Battle for America’s Future

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After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960 over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhowers former vice president, John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth president of the United States. But beneath the stately veneers of both Ike and JFK, there was a complex and consequential rivalry.
InRising Star, Setting Sun, Jonathan Shaw focuses on the intense ten-week transition between JFKs electoral victory and his inauguration on January 20, 1961. In just over two months, America would transition into a new age, and nowhere was it more marked that in the generational and personal difference between these two men and their dueling visions for the country they led. The former general espoused frugality, prudence, and stewardship. The young political wnderkid embodied dramatic themes and sweeping social change.
Extensively researched and eloquently written, Johnathan Shaw paints a vivid picture of whatTimecalled a turning point in the twentieth century as Americans today find themselves poised on the cusp of another watershed moment in our nations history.

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D wight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy were fascinating and consequential leaders. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to study them through the prism of the ten-week transition between Kennedys election as president on November 8, 1960 and his inauguration on January 20, 1961.

While I have been aided by excellent biographies and narratives, this book relies heavily on primary sources: memoirs, oral histories, contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, and thousands of pages of documents that were generated by the outgoing Eisenhower administration and the incoming Kennedy government. My quest to piece together this story was aided by many skilled and generous people.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston is a remarkable repository for insight into the career of JFK. I am grateful to the staff for their assistance during my visits there. My particular thanks to Stacey Chandler for her good-humored help navigating the archives. Maryrose Grossman, from the Kennedy Librarys audiovisual section, was gracious and resourceful as she and her team tracked down dozens of photos from the transition for me to review.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas is, likewise, an extraordinary institution whose resources I relied on. I am grateful to the Eisenhower Foundation Abilene Travel Grants program which awarded me a grant that allowed me to work at the Library and take in the ambiance of Ikes hometown. Thank you to Kevin Bailey and Tim Rives for help navigating the collection. My gratitude also to Kathy Struss, from the Librarys audiovisual department, for assembling photos taken during the transition. My sincere thanks to researcher Sydney Soderberg not only for her tenacity in tracking down documents at the Library but also for inviting me to her home for a wonderful family dinner.

The staff of the U.S. Senate Library was immensely helpful throughout this project. Thanks to Nancy Kervin and Tamara Elliott for their creative and dogged efforts to track down contemporary accounts of this time. Samantha Yeider, in the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery, was constantly helpful and cheerful.

My profound thanks go to three people who read the entire first draft of the manuscript and offered perceptive, penetrating, and invaluable advice: Richard Cohen, editor of The Almanac of American Politics, Betty Koed, the U.S. Senate Historian, and Ray Mayfield, a former executive in the federal government and private sector. Their comments and questions made this a better book.

My two-decade association with the Washington Diplomat magazine has been one of the joys of my professional life and I remain grateful to publisher, Victor Shiblie, and managing editor, Anna Gawel.

While working on the final edits of this book I was given the immense privilege of becoming the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. I look forward to a long and fruitful career here in Carbondale. America and the world need more leaders like Paul Simon and more universities like SIU.

Jonathan Lyons, my steadfast and supportive agent, believed in this project from the start and found a wonderful home for it at Pegasus Books. My sincere thanks to him, and to Jessica Case, Deputy Publisher at Pegasus, for her exuberance, attentiveness, and boundless energy.

Special thanks are due my family for their support and good humor: my parents, Joe and Terri Shaw, my brothers Dave and Tim Shaw, and my sisters Susan Moller, Pam Mueller, and Marybeth Sheehan.

Much of this book was written in a cottage in Tilghman Island on Marylands Eastern Shore. Heartfelt thanks to our hosts, first Ray and Jane Mayfield, and then Brenda and Norm Johanson, for their kindness in allowing me and my wife to share their spectacular view of the beautiful Chesapeake Bay. Few places in the world are as inspiring and calming.

This book would not have been possible, or worth doing, were it not for the support of my wife, Mindy Steinman. She sharpened my language, offered creative suggestions, asked penetrating questions, bolstered me during moments of weariness, and shared my passion for rendering this signal moment in American history. And then she packed up our house in Washington and organized our move to Carbondale.

RISING STAR, SETTING SUN

Pegasus Books Ltd.

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New York, NY 10018

Copyright 2018 by John T. Shaw

First Pegasus Books cloth edition May 2018

Interior design by Maria Fernandez

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review in a newspaper, magazine, or electronic publication; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN: 978-1-68177-732-0

ISBN: 978-1-68177-809-9 (e-book)

Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company

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