"A brilliantlyvibrant and compulsively readable one-volume life of one of the giants of thetwentieth century." —Michael Beschloss
“A clear-eyed, grand-scale biography. . . .[Eisenhower] provides a vivid lesson in leadership at just the moment when leadershipis of such paramount importance to the nation and the world.”—David McCullough
Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping andenthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatestgeneral and one of her best presidents—a remarkable man in an extraordinarytime, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
In this, the first single volume biography of Dwight D.Eisenhower to appear in decades, Michael Korda offers an honest and penetratinglook at the general and president reverentially known as Ike.
Full of fascinating details and anecdotes drawn from a richtreasure of letters, diaries, and historical documents, Ike shows how Eisenhower’s genius as acommander and a leader, his generosity of spirit, and his devotion to duty werevital in achieving victory, and formed, in many ways large and small, the worldin which we now live.
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