Presidential Studies Quarterly, March 22nd, 1997
SUSAN EISENHOWER, (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), 392 + pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-374-21514-6).
Mamie Eisenhower always considered herself as just Mrs. Ike, never as Mrs. General Eisenhower, and never took advantage of her position. Her biography, while centered on her life as the wife of a low-ranked second lieutenant rising to the rank of five-star general, supreme commander during World War II, returning to become a university president, then on to the presidency of the United States, and finally retirement, is much more than that. It is a close, warm review of three-quarters o...
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