Eisenhower: A Life
- ISBN-10
- 014312739X
- ISBN-13
- 9780143127390
- Series
- Eisenhower
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-08-08
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Paul Johnson
Description
A portrait of the 34th president places particular emphasis on his years as a five-star general and his two presidential terms, sharing additional coverage of such subjects as his Kansas childhood, West Point education and volatile relationship with Richard Nixon. By the best-selling author of Churchill. 30,000 first printing.
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- 2020-08-04
- 296 pages
- Paperback
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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