So easy to read and involving, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2018. With a preponderance of information, Smith is able to develop a fairly comprehensive look at the man who rose to greatness as the Supreme Allied Commander in the European Theatre during the Second World War. His first book, “The Defense of Berlin” (1963), which recounted the events leading to the building of the Berlin Wall, was published before he began his doctoral studies. accepted Miller's account because Garrett Mattingly, who as a naval officer in Washington censored outgoing cables, told a similar story to his Columbia University faculty colleagues in the early 1950s. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. His books helped restore the reputations of Grant and Eisenhower and return John Marshall to the forefront of the American story. It does not gloss over his mistakes & his difficult transition from army life to politics is clearly shown. His subjects ranged from the relatively obscure, like Lucius D. Clay, the American Army officer who oversaw occupied Germany after World War II, to the most historically consequential, like Franklin D. Roosevelt. This 2012 biography is a refreshing and well-written tour through the life of one of the 20th century greats. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Random House Trade; Illustrated edition (7 May 2013), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2017. Similarly, in “Eisenhower in War and Peace” (2012), Dr. Smith refuted the common perception of Eisenhower as a dullard. A recent Eisenhower biographer, historian Jean Edward Smith, gives credence both to the affair and Truman’s account of Ike’s desire to marry Kay. “Their work was written from a white-supremacist point of view — ‘The Birth of a Nation’ with footnotes,” the historian Richard Brookhiser wrote in reviewing “Grant” in The New York Times Book Review. Eisenhower in War and Peace [Smith, Jean Edward] on Amazon.com.au. Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Published by Richard on March 22, 2020. © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Pay over 3-months interest-free with an Instalment Plan on your Amazon Mastercard, Click here to see what's on their shelves. Makes a good case for Eisenhower as part of a lost moderate humane tradition within US republican party. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from … Skip to main content.sg. He was also a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown. Worth five stars if not for the suspicion that the author maybe was a little favouring of their subject. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Christian Science Monitor - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. This video is a video book review of Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith. 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