num_pages: 880
description: "An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." ― The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.
language: English
title: Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
titlecomplete: Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
characters: Dwight D. Eisenhower
genres: Us Presidents, Biography, World War II, Military Fiction, American History, Nonfiction, Leadership, History, Military History, Presidents
ratings_count: 837
publisher: Holt Paperbacks