DDE to Emmet John Hughes, December 10, 1953, Papers, 15:749. 9. Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), esp.
Rogers, William, 96, 295, 321, 330 Rojas Pinilla, Gustavo, 268 Roman Catholic Church, I69, 207, 222, 321-22, 329 Rome, 107, 310, 321 Rommel, Erwin, 40 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 298 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 59, 91, 349 administration of, ...
This book analyses how Eisenhower's tactics and political astuteness helped him successfully lead the invasion of Europe, how he coaxed contradictory parties into supporting his policies and how he triumphed in his now infamous clash with ...
Clark was blaming the near disaster not on his faulty plans—which had been drawn up by his chief of staff, Ike's old friend Al Gruenther—but on his corps commander, Major General Michael Dawley. Alexander had paid a visit to the ...
Haines, Gerald K., and Robert E. Leggett, eds. CIA 's Analysis of the Soviet Union. Washington, D.C.: Government Reprints Press, 2001. Pedlow, Gregory W., and Donald E. Welzenbach. T/Je CIA and the U-2 Program. I 954197-ii.
However, the general who carried most weight with Ike was Omar Bradley. From the summer of 1944 on, Ike had taken to consulting Bradley frequently as the most levelheaded of the army group leaders. He usually took his advice, ...
“He followed in a tradition that included George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Ulysses S. Grant.”73 But he was the only five-star general to do so.74 In fact, an argument could be made that ...
Ibid., 241-42; Bryant, Triumph in the West, 189-91; de Guingand, Operation Victory, 317. 26. Interview DE. 27. DE, At Ease, 275. 28. Leigh-Mallory to DE, 5/29/44, EP. 29. DE to Leigh-Mallory, 671/44, EP. 30. DE Diary, 6/3/44. 31.
As the 1958 off-year election approached, the President had to contend with another problem, this time close to home since it involved his trusted deputy, Sherman Adams. Sherm, as he was called, was well liked within the White House, ...
Traces Eisenhower's rise to prominence and power in the military and in his political career
Traces Eisenhower's rise to prominence and power in the military and in his political career
The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous.
With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind ...
Eisenhower
This book looks at how Eisenhower held power in the political field, and to what extent his political career was a success. This text is ideal for undergraduate courses in 20th Century American History and American Studies.
A biography of Dwight Eisenhower during the World War II years.
Casting new light on Dwight David Eisenhower's profound life, "Eisenhower" chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. 16-page insert, 5 maps.
The book reveals Eisenhower's advocacy in the pre-war years of the tank, his friendships with George Patton and Fox Conner, his service in the Philippines with Douglas MacArthur, and his culminating role as supreme commander of Allied ...
How Eisenhower managed the White House and developed United States foreign policy during the Suez crisis is the focus of subsequent chapters.
Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's 34th president.