Eisenhower in war and peace
A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 950 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [769]-896) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400066933 (hbk : alk. paper) 140006693X (hblk : alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | Jean Edward Smith was born on October 13, 1932. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1954. He then went on to serve in the military from 1954-1961. In 1964, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Public Law and Government of Columbia University. He is a well known biographer of several works inlcuding those featuring Franklin D. Rooselvelt and Ulysses S. Grant. He is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. In 2002 Jean Smith was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and in 2008 he won the Francis Parkman Prize. His title's inlcude: Bush, Eisenhower in War and Peace, FDR, Grant, and The Face of Justice: Portraits of John Marshall. (Bowker Author Biography) |
