Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace
Dwight D. Eisenhower is one of America’s greatest and least appreciated presidents...
Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace
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PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Richard Striner, author of Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is one of America’s greatest and least appreciated presidents.
Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements.
Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother’s pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age.
More than other biographies, this one explores the man’s emotions. It puts the long-standing dispute about his romance with Kay Summersby in a new perspective: tragedy.
Here is the story of a unique American, the passion and brilliance he kept concealed, the ambition that propelled him, the sacrifices that wore down his health, and the sheer self-mastery that made it all look easy.
It never was.
His achievements are timely as Americans face unprecedented dangers. This is the story of the world Ike made, the things he achieved, and the surprises that may still be in store for us as we strive to understand his life in full.
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BIO: Richard Striner, author of Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace, is a writer and historian whose work spans many fields.
One of the nation’s foremost Lincoln scholars, he is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln.
He has also written acclaimed books about economics, architecture, film, education, and public policy. He founded and led a historic preservation non-profit organization in the Nation’s Capital and led the group for twenty years.
A spell-binding public speaker, Striner taught history for over thirty years at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland. He now devotes himself full-time to book authorship, public speaking, and consulting
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Richard Striner, author of Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace.