Anthony James Joes, in Presidential AT^^^ Like Ike Studies Quarterly (Summer 1985), 208 East 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Few Chief Executives have fared so poorly among scholars of the presi- clency as Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61). Only two years after he left office, a poll of historians ranked him 20th in stature among U.S. presi- dents-tied with Chester A. Arthur (1881-85).
But the scholarly rehabilitation of Ike is now under way. Indeed, accorcl- ing to Joes, professor of politics at...