Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower's magnificent leadership as Allied Supreme Commander. Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life a man and a country struggling with issues as diverse as civil rights, atomic weapons, communism, and a new global role.
Along the way, Ambrose follows the 34th President's relations with the people closest to him, most of all Mamie, his son John, and Kay Summersby, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Harry Truman, Nixon, Dulles, Khrushchev, Joe McCarthy, and indeed, all the American and world leaders of his time. This superb interpretation of Eisenhower's life confirms Stephen Ambrose's position as one of our finest historians.
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Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
1 Abilene, West Point, World War I 2 Between the Wars 3 Preparing the First Offensive 4 North Africa, Sicily, and Italy 5 D-Day and the Liberation of France 6 The West Wall and the Battle of the Bulge 7 The Last Offensive 8 Peace 9 Columbia, NATO, and Politics 10 Candidate 11 Getting Started 12 The Chance for Peace 13 Peace in Korea -- Coup in Iran -- Atoms for Peace 14 McCarthy and Vietnam 15 ChiNats and ChiComs 16 The Geneva Summit and a Heart Attack 17 The 1956 Campaign 18 Little Rock and Sputnik 19 1958 -- A Most Difficult Year 20 A Revival 21 1960 -- High Hopes and Unhappy Realities 22 Transition and Assessment 23 Elder Statesman
Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
MAPS North Africa and Sicily and the Invasion of France The Defeat of Germany