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Advising Ike: The Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell
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Product Description In this enlightening volume, Herbert Brownell, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower said would make an outstanding president, recounts his achievements and trials as the GOP's most successful presidential operative of the 1940s and 1950s and as Attorney General at a crucial time in American history. Instrumental in getting Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for office and wielding considerable influence over many of the president's decisions, Brownell had to make many tough and controversial recommendations. In his memoirs he recalls his relationship with the president and the difficult issues confronting them—civil rights, McCarthyism, illegal aliens, anti-trust laws, national security vs. individual rights. "I am often amused when people pine about going back to the 'quiet days' of Eisenhower," writes Brownell, who served during an administration that faced not only the wrath of segregationists and Communist witch-hunters but also the resolution of an increasingly unpopular war in Korea and a new definition of American-Soviet relations following Joseph Stalin's death. Particularly difficult, but among the high points of the Eisenhower administration for Brownell, were the painstaking gains made in the area of civil rights. Despite personal attacks by the opposition on his integrity, he tenaciously supported and enforced the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education and Little Rock desegregation. Going beyond the years he spent on Eisenhower's cabinet, Brownell describes the events and people that have influenced his colorful life, including those from his early years in Nebraska, his apprentice years in New York as he joined the opposition to Tammany Hall, his stints as chairman of the Republican party and manager of Thomas Dewey's two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, his 62-year private law career, and his extensive world travels. Brownell's memoirs, filled with history, anecdotes, personal observations, and subtle humor, reveal a highly intelligent and modest man who achieved great accomplishments—developing the first Civil Rights act since Reconstruction, preserving national security while protecting individual rights—by doing what he thought was right, not by being politically correct. From Publishers Weekly A modest, upright man and an anti-ideological Republican, Brownell, as he emerges in this book written with University of Vermont political scientist Burke, portrays the more casual and genteel politics of the past. Readers will agree with John Chancellor's observation that "the trouble with people like Herbert Brownell is . . . there are not enough of them." Born in Nebraska in 1904, Brownell went from Yale Law School to a legal and political career in New York City. After a stint as a state legislator, he managed Thomas Dewey's successful New York gubernatorial campaign in 1942 and proceeded to work on the presidential campaigns of Dewey and Eisenhower. As Attorney General, Brownell moved to de-politicize and professionalize his department. He claims that Eisenhower made no deal with Earl Warren regarding the Supreme Court appointment, describes how he convinced Eisenhower to participate in the Brown desegregation case and maintains that the president's caution on civil rights "may have been ultimately more productive" because the problem "was not amenable to quick remedy." Beneath Eisenhower's "benevolent demeanor," Brownell argues, "was a knowledgeable and astute political mind." Photos not seen by PW . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews More than 35 years after leaving office, Brownell recalls serving as campaign adviser and attorney general for the man ``head and shoulders above all the other political figures I have ever encountered'': Dwight D. Eisenhower. In many ways, Brownell's autobiography--with an assist from Burke (Political Science/University of Vermont)--could serve as the credo of the ``Wall Street wing'' of socially moderate,
