Description: Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero. Harper Collins, 2007. Hardcover First Edition Book in Dust Jacket, ISBN 978-0-06-075665-9. Book is in pristine condition—everything perfect. Book boards perfect, text block perfect, dust jacket perfect. Unclipped dust jacket. Stated first edition. Appears unread. Pictures included are of the actual book being offered for sale. Korda’s biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower paints a fresh, frank, revealing, and admiring portrait of one of America’s greatest soldiers and one of its best presidents. This is not it smiling, amicable Ike of legend, but the real man: a daring, gifted, courageous, superlatively trained and tough-minded soldier, a perfectionist with a hair-trigger temper (mostly held under precarious control) who was perhaps the most successful leader of a multi-national coalition in all of history. Ike waged war in some of our darkest hours and brought the Allied nations to a triumphant victory. He went on to become president of Columbia University, the first commander of NATO, and later a wise and wily two-term president who waged peace at the height of the Cold War. Korda recounts Ike’s most infuriating subordinate and rival, Bernard Montgomery, who clashed with Ike over strategy from 1943-1945 and long afterward. Within the context of history, and against the backdrop of both World War II and the Cold War, Ike’s life and career are central to understanding America’s involvement with global affairs in the post-war era. As a boy reared in Kansas, he rose to become a military hero, an international statesman, and president of the world’s most powerful nation. Yet he remained a man who basic values of his youth—honesty and basic human decency—guided his life.
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Book Title: Ike: An American Hero
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Item Length: 6.25 in
Vintage: No
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9.25 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Topic: Books, Military History, World War II, Biography, Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day, American Presidents, Military Commanders, Bernard Montgomery
Item Width: 1.75 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: HarperCollins
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2007
Type: History
Literary Movement: Contemporary History
Era: 2000s
Author: Michael Korda
Genre: Adventure, History, Military, Biography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 45 oz
Number of Pages: 777 pages
