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EISENHOWER, John Sheldon Doud was born on August 3, 1922 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of late General Dwight D. Eisenhower (President of the United States of America 19.53-61) and Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower.
(Wife, soldier, or Red Cross executive, nearly everyone ev...)
Wife, soldier, or Red Cross executive, nearly everyone even indirectly involved in World War II faced extraordinary dislocations in their personal lives. Each experience was different, but much of it - the homesickness, the worries of separation, the love that could only be shared on paper, the daydreams of what life might be like after victory - was universal. As Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, General Eisenhower's personal story of those years, here recorded from the more than 300 letters he wrote home to his wife, Mamie, adds to the universal a special perspective - dealing with Roosevelt, Churchill, Darlan, Truman, and touring starlets; maneuvering General Patton from press defeats to military victories; and living always under the shadow of the momentous events of the war. But what emerges most strongly from these letters - edited, supplemented with commentary, and arranged in diary format by the Eisenhowers' son, John - is a private portrait of a man and of a loving marriage surviving the stresses of wartime separation and intense public scrutiny.
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( The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by ...)
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.
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(In the perfect match of subject and author, John S. D. Ei...)
In the perfect match of subject and author, John S. D. Eisenhower, a noted military historian, presents the definitive account of the birth of the modern Amer- ican army and its decisive role in World War I. With the help of his wife Joanne, Eisenhower captures the viewpoints of the actual participants, blending a narrative told from the perspective of top officers with the stories of average soldiers. Drawing on diaries and memoirs, he brings each engagement to life, from the initial planning to the actual battlefield experiences of soldiers whose exploits at Belleau Woods and along the Meuse-Argonne would become the stuff of legend. Along the way, he shows how General Pershing and other leaders -- including George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Billy Mitchell, and Peyton March -- transformed the American Expeditionary Force from a small, underequipped force into a strong, efficient, and effective army. Fast-paced, lively, and engaging, Yanks illuminates the central role of the American army in turning the tide in the biggest war the world had ever known.
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(John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as "a ...)
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as "a son's view of a great military leader -- highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us." It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best. General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father. John chose to write about the "military Ike," as opposed to the "political Ike," because Ike cared far more about his career in uniform than about his time in the White House. A series of portraits of Ike's relations with soldiers and statesmen, from MacArthur to Patton to Montgomery to Churchill to de Gaulle, reveals the many facets of a talented, driven, headstrong, yet diplomatic leader. Taken together, they reveal a man who was brilliant, if flawed; naïve at times in dealing with the public, yet who never lost his head when others around him were losing theirs. Above all, General Ike was a man who never let up in the relentless pursuit of the destruction of Hitler. Here for the first time are eyewitness stories of General Patton showing off during military exercises; of Ike on the verge of departing for Europe and assuming command of the Eastern Theater; of Churchill stewing and lobbying Ike in his "off hours." Faced with giant personalities such as these men and MacArthur, not to mention difficult allies such as de Gaulle and Montgomery, Ike nevertheless managed to pull together history's greatest invasion force and to face down a determined enemy from Normandy to the Bulge and beyond. John Eisenhower masterfully uses the backdrop of Ike's key battles to paint a portrait of his father and his relationships with the great men of his time. General Ike is a ringing and inspiring testament to a great man by an accomplished historian. It is also a personal portrait of a caring, if not always available, father by his admiring son. It is history at its best.
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In this enlightening volume, Herbert Brownell, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower said would make an outstanding president, recounts his achievements and trials as the GOP's most successful presidential operative of the 1940s and 1950s and as Attorney General at a crucial time in American history. Instrumental in getting Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for office and wielding considerable influence over many of the president's decisions, Brownell had to make many tough and controversial recommendations. In his memoirs he recalls his relationship with the president and the difficult issues confronting them civil rights, McCarthyism, illegal aliens, anti-trust laws, national security vs. individual rights. "I am often amused when people pine about going back to the 'quiet days' of Eisenhower," writes Brownell, who served during an administration that faced not only the wrath of segregationists and Communist witch-hunters but also the resolution of an increasingly unpopular war in Korea and a new definition of American-Soviet relations following Joseph Stalin's death. Particularly difficult, but among the high points of the Eisenhower administration for Brownell, were the painstaking gains made in the area of civil rights. Despite personal attacks by the opposition on his integrity, he tenaciously supported and enforced the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education and Little Rock desegregation. Going beyond the years he spent on Eisenhower's cabinet, Brownell describes the events and people that have influenced his colorful life, including those from his early years in Nebraska, his apprentice years in New York as he joined the opposition to Tammany Hall, his stints as chairman of the Republican party and manager of Thomas Dewey's two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, his 62-year private law career, and his extensive world travels. Brownell's memoirs, filled with history, anecdotes, personal observations, and subtle humor, reveal a highly intelligent and modest man who achieved great accomplishments developing the first Civil Rights act since Reconstruction, preserving national security while protecting individual rights by doing what he thought was right, not by being politically correct.
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( Italy, from the toe to the Alps, was the scene of the l...)
Italy, from the toe to the Alps, was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by the Western Allies during World War II. Now, John S. D. Eisenhower offers a new look at the Italian campaign, emphasizing the Anzio offensive—an operation pushed by Winston Churchill that fell largely to American troops to carry out. It was visualized as an amphibious landing of two Allied divisions behind German lines that would force the Wehrmacht to evacuate all of Italy. But the Germans held on and, with the arrival of reinforcements, nearly wiped out the Allied troops pinned down at Anzio Beach. By portraying that struggle from the perspectives of both commanders and foot soldiers, this prominent military historian focuses on the experiences of the individuals who fought in the Italian campaign to reveal what the battle at Anzio was all about. But more than the account of one operation, They Fought at Anzio covers the entire Italian campaign, from the landings at Salerno to the capture of Rome. Eisenhower brings a trained eye to reconstructing the difficult terrain of battle, approaching the Anzio campaign as a contest between opposing commands striving to anticipate and counter the opponent’s moves—not as a field exercise but as a deadly struggle for survival. He analyzes the command decisions that brought about the Anzio stalemate, interspersing his account with personal experiences of the men in the trenches, the nurses of the 56th Evacuation Hospital, and the young officers witnessing the horrors of war for the first time. As a study in command, Eisenhower’s narrative gives new credit to generals Lucian Truscott and Fred Walker and assesses both the strengths and weaknesses of General Mark Clark, allowing us to grasp the situation as it appeared to those in command. He also offers compelling portraits of German commanders Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and General Frido von Senger und Etterlin. It has been said that Anzio was a soldier’s battle, remembered more for blood shed than for military objectives achieved. By focusing on the experiences of the soldiers who fought there and the decisions of commanders in perilous circumstances, They Fought at Anzio offers a new appreciation of the contributions of both and a new understanding of this unheralded theater of the war.
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( The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest...)
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier’s soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, “Old Rough and Ready.” Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation’s highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California’s admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
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(It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever foug...)
It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The Allied generals had to rally beaten, dispirited troops in the face of an attack they had never dreamed possible.A study in command, from generals to squad leaders, The Bitter Woods follows von Runstedt, Dietrich, and of course Hitler, as closely as the Americans. As son of the supreme commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, a West Point graduate, a retired Army brigadier general, and a military historian, John Eisenhower is uniquely qualified to tell how the Allied generals (nearly all of whom he knew personally) met Hitler's challenge; how the two armies fought fiercely in the Ardennes from December 1944 to January 1945; and how the Allied victory broke the back of Nazi aggression.
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Ripped from their homeland, scattered in a foreign land, the Israelites longed for a way out and a way back. Much of the contemporary Christian experience is very similar to that of the Israelites who returned from exile - uncertain and tentative in their faith; questioning their legitimacy as children of God. How do we find our way out of lostness and suffering then? We need a guide. In God's marvelous working in these brief, and frequently overlooked chapters from Ezra and Nehemiah, we find one such guide. It is as if God speaks directly to us out of the pages of his history, saying, "Hold on. My guidance is sure. The walls can be rebuilt. You can dance with joy again as persons of God."
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(The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclav...)
The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and factions of all stripes throughout the Civil War. Lying between the Blue Ridge Mountains, Harpers Ferry, and Washington, D.C., the Loudoun Valley provided a natural corridor for commanders on both sides, while its mountainous fringes were home to partisans, guerillas, deserters and smugglers. This detailed history examines the conflicting loyalties in the farming communities, the peaceful Quakers caught in the middle, and the political underpinnings of Unionist Virginia.
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9 Hours 33 Minutes on CDs. John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as "a son's view of a great military leader-highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us." This book is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.
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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Request of the Selectmen, of the Town of St. Albans: Friday, August 2, 1850, of the Death of General Zachary Taylor, Late President of the United States My Friends and Fellow-citizens: The respected officers to whom you have committed the civil authority of your town, have called you together this day, to mark an occurrence of rare and peculiar interest. "Regarding it as fit that there be some public demonstration of the feelings of this community respecting the national calamity occasioned by the death of General Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States," they have invited you to manifest your sympathy on what they have most truly called "an afflicting dispensation;" and have assigned to me the duty of expressing the sentiments appropriate to an event, which is invested with no ordinary importance and solemnity. In accepting the office, however, thus kindly conferred, you will permit me to premise, that I have not been influenced by any confidence in my powers to do justice to the occasion. I see around me many, whose qualifications for such a duty seem far superior to my own. The fervid eloquence of the patriot, the deep knowledge of the practised politician, the high admiration of military renown, would all find ample scope in the subject assigned to me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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( At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, jou...)
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival and his reception in Melbourne and a flight with the daring Dutch flier Capt. Hans Smits. More frequently, Lardner wrote about the ordinary day and the average person. Traveling throughout the country, in Southwest Passage Lardner offers a glimpse of Australia in the 1940s and generates warmth and admiration for World War II fighters in the Pacific, whether Australian, New Zealander, aboriginal, or American. For generations of readers who have learned about World War II with the benefit of hindsight, Lardner’s tone, style, and selected topics give more than just entertaining anecdotes about the military in the Pacific; they are a view into the culture and society of midcentury America.
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In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands earlier ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. Elements of the Menominee, Dakota, Potawatomi, and Ho Chunk tribes willingly allied themselves with the United States government against their fellow Native Americans in an uncommon defense of their diverse interests. As the Black Hawk War came only two years after the passage of the Indian Removal Act and is widely viewed as a land grab by ravenous settlers, the military participation of these tribes seems bizarre. What explains this alliance? In order to grasp Indian motives, John Hall explores their alliances in earlier wars with colonial powers as well as in intertribal antagonisms and conflicts. In the crisis of 1832, Indians acted as they had traditionally, leveraging their relationship with a powerful ally to strike tribal enemies, fulfill important male warrior expectations, and pursue political advantage and material gain. However, times had changed and, although the Indians achieved short-term objectives, they helped create conditions that permanently changed their world. Providing a rare view of Indian attitudes and strategies in war and peace, Hall deepens our understanding of Native Americans and the complex roles they played in the nation’s history. More broadly, he demonstrates the risks and lessons of small wars that entail an “uncommon defense” by unlikely allies in pursuit of diverse, even conflicting, goals.
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EISENHOWER, John Sheldon Doud was born on August 3, 1922 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of late General Dwight D. Eisenhower (President of the United States of America 19.53-61) and Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1944. Master of Arts in English Literature, Columbia, 1950. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northwood Institute, 1970.
Commissioned Second lieutenant of United States Army, 1944, advanced through grades to lieutenant colonel, 1963. Assigned 1st Army, Europe, 1945, Army of Occupation, Europe, 1945-1947, Korean War, 1952-1953, Army General Staff, 1957-1958, White House Staff, 1958-1961. Resigned, 1963; brigadier general United States Army Reserve, 1974.
Engaged in writing, 1965-1969. United States ambassador to Belgium, American Embassy, Brussels, 1969-1971. Consultant to the President.
Also chairman of Interagency Classification Review Committee, 1972-1973. Chairman of board Academy Life Insurance Company, Atlanta. Member of advisory council National Archives, 1974-1977.
Chairman of President's Advisory Committee on Refugees, 1975. Military editor of Algonguin Books of Chapel Hill.
( The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest...)
( Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments le...)
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( In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black H...)
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(Ripped from their homeland, scattered in a foreign land, ...)
( At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, jou...)
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Member of diplomatic council, board governors United Service Organizations, 1983-1985. Trustee Alumni Federation Columbia University, 1976-1980. Member of Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired, Capitol Hill Club.
Son of Dwight David (34th President of the United States) and Mamie (Doud) E. Married to Barbara Jean Thompson, June 10, 1947 (divorced 1986). Children: Dwight David II, Barbara Anne, Susan Elaine, Mary Jean.
Married to Joanne Thompson, April 9, 1990.