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Sloan (political science, Univ. of Houston) has made another contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Eisenhower's presidency. During the late 1950s, Eisenhower was the object of widespread disdain among liberal intellectuals who perceived him as a do-nothing president, more interested in playing golf than in providing leadership. This was, in their view, in sharp contrast to the more vigorous presidencies of Roosevelt and Truman. As Sloan observes,...

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower's magnificent leadership as Allied Supreme Commander. Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life...

"The best single volume available on the Eisenhower presidency". -- Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Eisenhower.