When Dwight Eisenhower decided to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 1952, obstacles loomed: His record as the hero of World War II might not translate well to a political ...

The Associated Press and Diversion Books have republished "Dwight D. Eisenhower," a biography by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Relman Morin, on today’s 72nd anniversary of D-Day. Morin ...

If Dwight Eisenhower qualifies as one of the most influential Americans during the 20th century, then a woman from Denver deserves plenty of attention. Her birth name was Mamie Geneva Doud. She came ...

EISENHOWER: SOLDIER AND PRESIDENT. Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster. 635 pages. $29.95. Despite an extraordinary career as soldier and statesman, Dwight Eisenhower was skewered during the ...

“Potato love” was the dismissive phrase Saul Bellow used in the 1960s to describe Dwight Eisenhower’s deep and broad appeal to the American public, who chose him in two presidential elections over the ...

The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. long claimed that American politics moved in cycles. Every few decades, he suggested, the nation witnessed a swing of the pendulum, with power and ideological ...

See Ike build the interstate highway system? Ike was a nice man. Ike was a great general. Ike was a very good president. And there you have it in Paul Johnson’s fawning, glowing air-kiss to the 34th ...

As I open Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy biography, I anticipate a good read. I'm an admirer of Tomalin's previous biographies (Jane Austen and Samuel Pepys, among them). I know the Penguin Press ...

Dr. Howard Snyder grew up in Cheyenne and became a U.S. Army surgeon during World War II. When he met Dwight Eisenhower, the ...

John Rubinstein’s first encounter with 34th U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was not the one-man play that he performs around the country. “I met him in the White House when I was 8 or 9 years ...