The story of Dwight D. Eisenhower's first administration, told by the 34th president of the United States himself. Here, Eisenhower, one of the major figures of the twentieth century, writes an account of the events, as he saw them, leading up to a sweeping mandate, and then pursues the theme of change in the years 1953 to 1956.

Ike's 1945 opinion on the atomic bomb is on pages 312-313