Eisenhower: Soldier and President

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Simon and Schuster, 15 oct. 1991 - 635 pages
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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.
 

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Foreword
11
Abilene West Point World War I
15
Between the Wars
36
Preparing the First Offensive
60
North Africa Sicily and Italy
83
DDay and the Liberation of France
120
The West Wall and the Battle of the Bulge
160
The Last Offensive
182
Peace in KoreaCoup in IranAtoms for Peace
327
McCarthy and Vietnam
346
ChiNats and ChiComs
373
The Geneva Summit and a Heart Attack
389
The 1956 Campaign
412
Little Rock and Sputnik
436
1958A Most Difficult Year
455
Transition and Assessment
530

Peace
204
Columbia NATO and Politics
238
Candidate
268
Getting Started
288
The Chance for Peace
301
Elder Statesman
549
Epilogue
572
Bibliography
595
MAPS
623
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Page 534 - In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Page 534 - This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government.
Page 324 - ... from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Page 336 - We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
Page 534 - Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national...
Page 340 - States' stockpile of atomic weapons, which, of course, increases daily, exceeds by many times the explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theater of war in all of the years of World War II.
Page 96 - Husky" as are best calculated to eliminate Italy from the war and to contain the maximum number of German forces.
Page 133 - I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Page 228 - It is my conviction that the necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power will be best sustained, and our people will have greater confidence that it is so sustained, when lifelong professional soldiers, in the absence of some obvious and overriding reasons, abstain from seeking high political office.

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Stephen E. Ambrose is Boyd Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of the critically acclaimed three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962, Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972, and Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990.

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