About the book
Jean Edward Smith's biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, America's thirty-fourth president, traces his path from a Kansas boyhood in Abilene to West Point and on. Using primary sources earlier writers had left untouched, Smith examines Eisenhower's difficult apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur and his generalship in World War II as the Allies moved toward victory. He also looks at Ike's finances, his wartime affair with Kay Summersby and the behind-the-scenes account of how the 1952 Republican convention put him on the road to the White House. Against detractors who dismissed him as a sleepy caretaker, Smith presents a shrewd politician and decisive leader who kept the peace and raised American prestige in the Middle East and around the world.
Ryan Holiday strongly recommended it among his best books of 2013, saying it showed him how much of a strategic and political genius Eisenhower was.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
I also strongly recommend Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith–I did not fully appreciate what a strategic and political genius Eisenhower was until this book.
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