Eisenhower, Volume 1: Soldier, Gerneral of the Army President Elect, 1890-1952

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. 6.25"x9.5" 637 indexed pages. Rasberry cloth spine w/silver letters over taupe textured boards. Designed by Edith Fowler. DJ photo courtesy Popperfoto. Maps for paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, price clipped, unmarked. Retail sticker front flap. Mild shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. 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. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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