The Eisenhower Diaries by Dwight D Eisenhower

The Eisenhower Diaries by Dwight D Eisenhower

In his books--the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his life--Eisenhower related the course of events over the years, with descriptive detail and frequently with humor, but he usually stayed away from analysis. In his many private letters to friends and acquaintances, some of which have been published, he was more frank, but he still held back. And the public record of his military career and of his presidency does not reflect many open, frank statements, proofs that the soldier-president thought long and deeply about issues, personal or public; it has given substance to the speculation by many of his contemporaries and by some later students of Eisenhower that he was essentially a public relations man and that his life was all outward--an expression of assent and agreement or at least of forebearance, of a man who never had an idea or, if he did, would quickly chase it out of sight.

Louis Galambos is professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. His many books include The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II and The Public Image of Big Business in America. He is co-editor (with Alfred D. Chandler Jr.) of volume VI of the Eisenhower Papers, and editor of volumes VII-XIII. All are available from Johns Hopkins. Daun van Ee, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers, is a lecturer in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of David Dudley Field and the Reconstruction of the Law.

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ISBN 13	9780393014327
ISBN 10	0393014320
Title	The Eisenhower Diaries
Author	Dwight D Eisenhower
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1981-05-17
Number of pages	464
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