ASIN: B06XDFX6JB
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 287
In the pantheon of American “heroes,” few men stand as high as Dwight D. Eisenhower – commonly referred to as simply “Ike.” The great Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower, as the fable goes, defeated the “Nazis” and saved Europe. Years later, as the 34th President of the United States of America, the grandfatherly Eisenhower led America through a period of peace and prosperity while strongly containing the dark forces of international communism. Hence the lasting political slogan based upon Irving Berlin’s catchy jingle of the 1950’s, “I Like Ike!”Like most of the biographies of the “great men” of the 20th century, the myth of Eisenhower, spread by charlatan court-historians such as the late Stephen Ambrose, is just that – a myth. As a military tactician, Ike the desk-general was barely competent. Blood-thirsty and brutal? Yes. Capable? Not really -- unless we regard the ...
