Dwight D. Eisenhower : An American Icon

by Dewhirst, Robert E.; Johnson, Matthew A.

• ISBN13: 9781611228144
• ISBN10: 161122814X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

This book presents a biographical sketch of a distinctive American icon, Dwight Eisenhower. The volume spans his early life in Kansas, West Point years and Army career in both the United States and overseas in the Philippines, Panama, and Europe. His subsequent rapid rise in rank while commanding American and Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War is then discussed. The second half of the book covers his years in the White House as Americas thirty-fourth president. This section concludes with a review of scholarly assessments of his presidency, as well as a summary of his final years spent in private life.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
From Kansas to West Point and Beyond	p. 1
Army Life in the United States between Two World Wars	p. 15
The Second World War: The Early Years	p. 29
From Overlord to Peace	p. 45
Peace and Beyond	p. 67
The View from the White House: The Long Route from Korea through McCarthy to the St. Lawrence Seaway, 1953-1954	p. 79
Overcoming Crises, Both Personal and International 1955-1956	p. 103
Beginning the Second Term: Confronting Crises at Home and Abroad, 1957-1958	p. 123
Spies, Dictators, and Summits: U-2 Can Be Ready to Leave the White House 1959-1960	p. 141
Life After the White House	p. 157
Acknowledgments	p. 171
About the Authors	p. 173
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