Summary
Ambrose draws upon extensive sources and numerous interviews while tracing Eisenhower's rise to prominence and power in the military and in his political career. In so doing, he produces the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. Full description
- Abilene, West Point, World War I
- Between the wars
- Preparing the first offensive
- North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
- D-Day and the liberation of France
- The West Wall and the Battle of the Bulge
- The last offensive
- Peace
- Columbia, NATO, and politics
- Candidate
- Getting started
- The chance for peace
- Peace in Korea, coup in Iran, atoms for peace
- McCarthy and Vietnam
- ChiNats and ChiComs
- The Geneva Summit and a heart attack
- The 1956 Campaign
- Little Rock and Sputnik
- 1958 : a most difficult year
- A revival
- 1960 : high hopes and unhappy realities
- Transition and assessment
- Elder Statesman.