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Eisenhower in War and Peace

Eisenhower in War and Peace( )
Author: Smith, Jean Edward
ISBN:978-0-8129-8288-6
Publication Date:May 2013
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $28.00
Book Description:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Christian Science Monitor * St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Magisterial."--The New York Times nbsp; In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point...
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Book Details
Pages:976
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
Biography & Autobiography / Military
History / United States / 20Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.13 x 9.21 x 1.55 Inches
Book Weight:2.625 Pounds
Author Biography
Smith, Jean Edward (Author)


Jean Edward Smith was born on October 13, 1932. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1954. He then went on to serve in the military from 1954-1961. In 1964, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Public Law and Government of Columbia University. He is a well known biographer of several works inlcuding those featuring Franklin D. Rooselvelt and Ulysses S. Grant. He is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

In 2002 Jean Smith was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and in 2008 he won the Francis Parkman Prize. His title's inlcude: Bush, Eisenhower in War and Peace, FDR, Grant, and The Face of Justice: Portraits of John Marshall.

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