How Ike led : the principles behind Eisenhower's biggest decisions /

How Ike led : the principles behind Eisenhower's biggest decisions /

How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time, by a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean Wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisenhower, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969 > Military leadership.
Political leadership > United States > Case studies.
Command of troops > Case studies.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961 > Decision making.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961 > Decision making.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Accountability without caveats
  • Inner struggles
  • Beyond ethnic kinship
  • "Born to command"
  • Human problems
  • "I don't think he has any politics"
  • Shaping the middle way
  • Ike's rules for good governance
  • The interconnections between war and peace
  • A strategist takes on a demagogue
  • Principles and tenacity in times of crisis
  • The loneliness of power
  • Establishing a beachhead
  • Playing the long game
  • A farewell
  • When no one was looking
  • Epilogue.