At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

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Doubleday, 1967 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages
This is a reprint of a classic book written by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1967 (Doubleday). These anecdotal essays span his childhood and his career and are enjoyable and informative reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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A Man Talking to Himself
1
CHAPTER II
29
CHAPTER III
39
Copyright

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About the author (1967)

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving two terms, from 1953-1961. He was also a former U.S. general in the Army. The former president was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas and died on March 28, 1969. Eisenhower was a graduate from the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-1943 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-1945 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. Eisenhower married Mamie Geneva Doud on July 1, 1916, and they later had two sons. Eisenhower's support of the nation's fledgling space program was modest until the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, gaining the Cold War enemy enormous prestige around the world. He then launched a national campaign that funded not just space exploration but a major strengthening of science and higher education. He rushed construction of more advanced satellites, created NASA as a civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with American scientists. He also was in office when both Alaska and Hawaii became part of the United States of America in 1959.

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TitleAt Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
Avon books
AuthorDwight David Eisenhower
Editionreprint
PublisherDoubleday, 1967
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 22, 2008
ISBN0385085532, 9780385085533
Length400 pages
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