Eisenhower biographies

This bibliography of Dwight D. Eisenhower is a list of published works about Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34thpresident of the United States.

General biographies

• Ambrose, Stephen (). Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect (–). Vol.&#;I. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Ambrose, Stephen (). Eisenhower: The President (–). Vol.&#;II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Boyle, Peter G. (). Eisenhower. Pearson/Longman. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
• D'Este, Carlo (). Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. ISBN&#;.
• Galambos, Louis (). Eisenhower becoming the leader of the free world. ISBN&#;.
• Krieg, Joann P. ed. (). Dwight D. Eisenhower, Soldier, President, Statesman. 24 essays by scholars. ISBN&#;
• Newton, Jim (). Eisenhower: The White House Years. Doubleday. ISBN&#;.
• Parmet, Herbert S. (). Eisenhower and the American Crusades. OCLC&#;
• Smith, Jean Edward (). Eisenhower in War and Peace. Random House. ISBN&#;.
• Wicker, Tom (). Dwight D. Eisenhower. Times Books. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

Military career

• Ambrose, Stephen E. () The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhowerexcerpt and text search
• Ambrose, Stephen E. (). The Victors: Eisenhower and his Boys: The Men of World War II, New York&#;: Simon & Schuster. ISBN&#;X
• Eisenhower, David (). Eisenhower at War –, New York&#;: Random House. ISBN&#; A detailed study by his grandson.
• Eisenhower, John S. D. (). General Ike, Free Press, New York. ISBN&#;
• Hobbs, Joseph Patrick (). Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN&#;.
• Irish, Kerry E. "Apt Pupil: Dwight Eisenhower and the Industrial Mobilization Plan", The Journal of Military History () 31–61 online in Project Muse.
• Jordan, Jonathan W. (). Brothers Rivals Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe. NAL/Caliber. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
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Dwight David Eisenhower
General of the Army
Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces
October 14, &#; March 28,

Dwight D. Eisenhower began his career in the U.S. Army on June 14, as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. As a young officer, his ability to understand military strategy was noticed by high-ranking officials. During World War II, he rose through the ranks to become the Allied Supreme Commander and five-star General of the Army, orchestrating the June 6, , D-Day landings at Normandy, France. After World War II, Eisenhower was elected the 34th President of the United States and served two terms from Despite the outward appearance of two enormously successful careers, Eisenhower’s life is truly representative of the phrase of “not getting what you want, but what you need.”

Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, , in Denison, Texas, to David and Ida Eisenhower. The family moved to a small, three-acre farm in Abilene, Kansas, when he was 2 years old. Despite the family’s lower-class economic situation, Eisenhower and his five brothers were each allotted a small portion of the field to grow their own crops for personal spending money. All six boys learned the necessity and value of hard work through the sales of their crops.

Eisenhower and his older brother, Edgar, dreamed of going to college—a dream that the family could not afford. Eisenhower offered to take on extra work for a year to help pay for Edgar’s tuition, on the condition that his brother would take a break from college to return the financial favor. Eisenhower held true to his word and sent Edgar $ that first year. During this time, Eisenhower learned that he could attend college tuition-free through military service. He applied for his top choice, the Naval Academy, but was rejected because he was over the age of Although he was disappointed, he did not give up. He persi

Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. He pursued the moderate policies of "Modern Republicanism," pointing out as he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world."

Born in Texas in , brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in

In his early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November ; on D-Day, , he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France.

After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in

"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan; Eisenhower won a sweeping victory.

Negotiating from military strength, he tried to reduce the strains of the Cold War. In , the signing of a truce brought an armed peace along the border of South Korea. The death of Stalin the same year caused shifts in relations with Russia.

New Russian leaders consented to a peace treaty neutralizing Austria. Meanwhile, both Russia and the United States had developed hydrogen bombs. With the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, with the leaders of the British, French, and Russian governments, met at Geneva in July

The President proposed that the United S

“For me, the reading of history was an end in itself, not a source of lessons to guide us in the present or to prepare me for the future…. I did not know what opportunities were there for learning. I read history for history’s sake, for myself alone.”

Dwight Eisenhower, writing in his memoir, At Ease, of his early interest in reading.

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of many interests, passions, and hobbies. He had a well-publicized love of golf, a deep affinity for painting, and was quite the card player as well. While these passions emerged in Eisenhower’s adulthood, there is one interest he maintained as a hobby from his early boyhood until his final days: reading.

As a boy, Eisenhower was captivated by books. Initially, he was drawn to the Classics, writing in his memoir, “My first reading love was ancient history.” One of seven boys growing up in the Eisenhower family in Abilene, Kansas, young Ike’s days were full of chores, sports, and playing outdoors, yet he still maintained a deep love of reading books. When daily chores became too burdensome, he read to escape back to Ancient Greece and Rome. In fact, his love of reading was so great that his mother had to hide young Dwight’s books in a closet and lock them up in order to get him to do his daily chores. The ploy worked until Ike discovered the key to the closet. When Ida Eisenhower left home to run errands, or whenever he had the chance, young Ike preferred the type of trouble that involved breaking his books out of their isolation and pouring through them, transporting himself back to ancient times.

As Dwight Eisenhower grew, so did his reading list and his interests. By the time he was a cadet at West Point, he had expanded his reading to more contemporary history, as well as texts on engineering, mathematics, and military doctrines. Politics and history—especially military history—remained a staple of his personal library throughout his life, t