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Despite competing biographies from Ambrose, Perret, and D\'Este, this is the best.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) No one has written so heroic a biography on Eisenhower] as this year\'s Eisenhower in War and Peace by] Jean Edward Smith.--The National Interest Dwight Eisenhower, who was more cunning than he all.
Smith portrays a genuinely admirable Eisenhower: smart, congenial, unpretentious, and no ideologue. . .
Smith] shows us that Eisenhower\'s] ascent to the highest levels of the military establishment had much more to do with his easy mastery of politics than with any great strategic or tactical achievements.--The Wall Street Journal Always engrossing . . .
Smith, whose long, distinguished career includes superb one-volume biographies of Grant and Franklin Roosevelt, provides just that.--The Washington Post Highly readable .
Eisenhower\'s] White House years need a more thorough exploration than many previous biographers have given them. . .
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Praise for Eisenhower in War and Peace A] fine new biography .
Unmatched in insight, Eisenhower in War and Peace at last gives us an Eisenhower for our time--and for the ages.
He managed not only to keep the peace, but also to enhance America\'s prestige in the Middle East and throughout the world.
Derided by his detractors as a somnambulant caretaker, Eisenhower emerges in Smith\'s perceptive retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful, decisive leader.
Smith\'s chronicle of Eisenhower\'s presidential years is as compelling as it is comprehensive.
Smith also gives us an intriguing examination of Ike\'s finances, details his wartime affair with Kay Summersby, and reveals the inside story of the 1952 Republican convention that catapulted him to the White House.
Then the whole panorama of World War II unfolds, with Eisenhower\'s superlative generalship forging the Allied path to victory.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike\'s maddening apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur.
Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond.
Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America\'s thirty-fourth president.
Louis Post-Dispatch Magisterial.--The New York Times In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Christian Science Monitor - St
