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

Eisenhower, Susan 1951-

How Ike led : the principles behind Eisenhower's biggest decisions / Susan Eisenhower - New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2020 - 387 p.: ill.; 24 cm

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.

"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 War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give our country eight years


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Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969. --Liderezgo militar.


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