Dwight Eisenhower

In the early 1970s, Katharine Graham was one of the most powerful women on earth. As the publisher of the Washington Post, she published the Pentagon Papers, which shed light on the darkest corners of the war in Vietnam....

This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

While there have been many biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower that focus on his military career or the time of his presidency, none clearly explores the important role faith played both in his personal life and in his public policy....

Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy....

Discover the entertaining story of how campaigning by train shaped American politics, elections, journalism, and culture in Whistle-Stop Politics.

Eisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency.

When George H. W. Bush asked Doro to write this memoir, she contacted hundreds of his friends and associates and conducted scores of interviews with dignitaries....

A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post-World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream....

Dwight D. Eisenhower earned public acclaim during World War II as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe....

In this book, his only daughter, Doro Bush Koch, examines the many roles her father has played: statesman, political leader, businessman, family man, sportsman, comedian, and, of course, father....

Here is a brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of American politics from one of journalism's most acclaimed commentators.....

President Eisenhower led us to victory in World War II. He then led our country as President for 8 years. He understood war and he understood how Washington worked....

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. Yet the young officer made the most of the opportunities he was given, made a lasting impression on superiors, and eventually gained a reputation as an excellent staff officer.

Here are the military trials that shook the nation and affected history - from Benedict Arnold to Lieutenant Calley - taken from official trial records soon after they were released to the public....

Acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo Michel Paradis provides a thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.

Jim Webb presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people....

This Splash Read collection includes 19 historical fiction short stories about US Presidents. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues....

Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954....

Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program....

In Sovereign Soldiers, Grant Madsen tells the story of how this cast of characters assumed an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role. Seeking to avoid the harsh punishments meted out after World War I, military leaders believed they had to rebuild and rehabilitate....