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Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Jim Newton When I set out to write Eisenhower: The White House Years, Dwight D. Eisenhower had to win me over. That’s because my initial view of him was through the eyes of my previous subject, the late Chief Justice Earl Warren. Although Ike appointed Warren, it seemed to the chief justice, as it did to many Americans, that Ike was a benign but disengaged leader, unmoved by the call for civil rights, content to let the nation float on a tide of peaceful prosperity. So even though my editor, the great Phyllis Grann, was persuaded that Ike would stand up to hard scrutiny, I had my doubts. It was with that ambivalence that, in early 2007, I arrived in Abilene, Kansas, home of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, unsure where immersion in Eisenhower’s presidential legacy would lead.There, in Ike’s hometown, surrounded by his voluminous papers, I came around. For what those papers capture is a blend of military acumen, diplomatic subtlety and presidential leadership rivaled in American history only by George Washington.John Eisenhower, Ike’s perceptive son, crisply described his father to me one morning in 2010. “My dad,” he sa

Who reads Eisenhower : The White House Years?

Author

Newton, Jim

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385534536

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (1,056 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14