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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers Dwight D. Eisenhower including his career in the US Army and key events from Eisenhower's administration including the Korean War, the struggle for civil rights, and the forming of NASA. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included." -- Publisher's website.
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This biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War II, and provides, with the advantage of hindsight, a far more acute analysis of his character and personality than any previously available, reaching the conclusion that he was perhaps America's greatest general and one of America's best presidents. The book starts with the story of D-Day--it was Ike's plan, Ike's decision, Ike's...
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2017.
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"When former fashion model Kay Summersby is assigned to drive General Eisenhower in war-time London, they quickly become involved -- in spite of Ike's marriage to Mamie and Kay's engagement to an American colonel. Kay and Ike struggle to keep their commitments but are increasingly and irresistably drawn to one another. Then Kay's financ�♭ is killed and Ike, facing the most challenging battles of the war, makes her his closest aide, confidante,...
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Pub. Date
c1986
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He was in fact an odd sort of general, being modest, tolerant, candid, peace-loving, suggestible and conciliatory to the point of weakness. He was an astonishing contrast to the flamboyant egotists, prima donnas to a man, who dominated the contemporary stage. He had the charisma of a film star yet he exuded self-effacing moderation and natural good sense. Ike was the epitome of the common man.-Piers Brendon Read Piers Brendon's insightful biography...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers...
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Landmark books volume 108
Pub. Date
[1964]
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A biography of General Eisenhower who became President eight years after leading the Allied armies to victory in Europe during World War II.