Books about dwight d eisenhower biography

There are numerous books on Dwight Eisenhower, and it comes with good reason, aside from being elected America’s thirty-fourth President (), he was the commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, obtained a truce in Korea, and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War.

&#;History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid,&#; he remarked.

In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of America’s most consequential figures to the height of political power, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best books on Dwight Eisenhower.

The Age of Eisenhower by William I.

Hitchcock

Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights turmo