DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERwas born in 1890 in Denison, Texas, and grew up in Abilene, Kansas. He served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War II and, from 1953 to 1961, as the thirty-fourth president of the United States. He died in Washington, DC, in 1969.
Eisenhower gives the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life. -The New York Times This non-ghost-written book is as simple and as forthright as the innumerable admirers of its author have every right to expect it would be. -New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review