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.
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