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Re: What is the Best Eisenhower Biography?
Well, thank you all. Evidently, the site is having problems because I kept checking for Alerts at the top of the page and, seeing none, hadn't checked back on this conversation.
Midget Faded Rattlesnake, you're absolutely right we don't want our Presidents managing too much. That was more a comment to those who say Ike was a decent President during a decade wherein nothing really consequential happened. Perhaps it was rather stable because Ike did a good job of foreseeing and managing what did happen. That's what I want to find out in the biographies.
George Will also spoke well of the Smith book, so I'll likely start there (since it's available on Audible.com, my preferred way to consume many books). May move on to the Ambrose bio and the ones on Ike's Bluff and Ike & Truman later.
Again, thank you all. Your inisghts are much appreciated.