William Beatty Pickett (born March 12, 1940) is an American historian and professor emeritus at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
He is known as an authority on President Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Indiana Sen.
Homer E.
Capehart, and is the author of several well-regarded books on U.S.
history including Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power and Eisenhower Decides To Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy.