Ike: An American Hero
by Michael Korda
Korda's Eisenhower: Kansas, West Point, the long peacetime wait, the supreme command, and the presidency as the hidden-hand managing of a dangerous decade. Admiring and well written.
Read it if…
you want Eisenhower by a writer rather than an academic.
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Skip it if…
you read Ambrose.
Try instead: Supreme Commander →
Three things you will actually use
- Long preparation precedes sudden rise.
- Hide the hand; get the result.
- Calm is contagious.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the years before the war.
Our verdict
Eisenhower, by a writer.
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