In January 1961, three days before President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the torch to John F. Kennedy, the president had one final mission. In the young readers? edition of his New York Times bestselling book, Fox News anchor Bret Baier examines the historic transition and Eisenhower?s last chance to lead the country he loved through his legendary farewell address and his personal appeals to Kennedy.

Uses original footage from the CBS See it now series to explore Senator Joseph McCarthy's search for Communist influences in the federal government. Morrow's broadcasts show McCarthy's abuses of power and signal the emergence of television news as an influential force in American life.

"A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--