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050	0	0	_aE836 _b.K67 2007
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100	1		_aKorda, Michael
245	1	0	_aIke _b: an American hero _c/ Michael Korda
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York, NY _b: Harper _c, c2007.
300			_axx, 779 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 743-747) and index.
520			_a"In this first major single-volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower to appear in many years, Michael Korda, the author of Ulysses S. Grant, paints a full-length portrait of not the smiling, amiable Ike of legend but the real man: a daring, gifted, courageous, superlatively trained, and tough-minded soldier, a perfectionist with a hair-trigger temper (mostly held under precarious control) who was perhaps the most successful leader of a multinational coalition in all history. Ike waged war in some of our darkest hours and brought the Allied nations to a triumphant victory. He went on to become president of Columbia University, the first commander of NATO, and later a wise, wildly popular two-term president who "waged peace" at the height of the Cold War." "Ike is narrative history on an epic scale, and demonstrates Ike's role in the great events and with the major historical figures of the twentieth century. Korda confronts squarely such difficult, controversial issues as Ike's relationship with his wartime aide and driver, Kay Summersby; and his struggles with his most infuriating subordinate and rival, Bernard Montgomery, who clashed with Ike over strategy from 1943 to the end of the war (and long afterward) and cuttingly dismissed him as, "Nice chap. No soldier." He discusses Ike's dispute with the "bomber barons" of the USAAF and the RAF, which forced him to threaten to resign his command and go home if he didn't have control of their heavy bombers before D-day. Further, he addresses Ike's determination to win the war in Europe with his own strategy; the reasons for his firm decision not to take Berlin or Prague before the Russians; the story of his by no means inevitable rise to the presidency; and the many crises he confronted as president, from McCarthyism to the perils of nuclear war." "Within the context of history and against the backdrop of two world wars and the Cold War, Ike's life and career are central to understanding America's involvement with global affairs in the postwar era."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aEisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
610	1	0	_aUnited States _b. Army _x--Biography
650		4	_aPresidents _z-United States _x-Wives _v--Biography
650		0	_aGenerals _x--United States -- Biography
650			_aHeroes _z-United States _v--Biography
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x-Campaigns
942			_cMO
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