Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

Between the evening of January 17, 1961, and the afternoon of January 20, Dwight Eisenhower delivered what may be the most prescient farewell address in American presidential history, and quietly worked to prepare a young and untested John F. Kennedy for the enormous weight of the office he was about to inherit. In this acclaimed national bestseller, Fox News anchor Bret Baier uses those three extraordinary days to illuminate the full arc of Eisenhower's remarkable life and largely underestimated presidency. From his humble upbringing in rural Kansas through West Point, the battlefields of World War II, and two consequential terms in the Oval Office, Baier shows how Ike shaped modern America in ways that history has been slow to recognize. His farewell warning against the military-industrial complex, unchecked deficit spending, and the corrosive power of special interests reads today less like history than prophecy. Updated with a new preface and postscript, Three Days in January makes a compelling case that Eisenhower stands as one of the finest examples of principled, honorable leadership in the American presidency, and that the lessons of his final days in power have never been more urgently needed.