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Author : Andrew J. Fenady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781283320276
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Big Ike written by Andrew J. Fenady and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Fenady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786299676
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Big Ike written by Andrew J. Fenady and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Owen Wister Award-winning author of "The Rebel: Johnny Yuma" comes another rip-roaring Western adventure. A Civil War veteran who fought at Shiloh, Big Ike leads a wagon train through hostile Apache territory as a notorious gunman trails him. Original.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316217271
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Ike's Bluff written by Evan Thomas and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time restraining his generals and advisors who favored the strikes. Ike's gamble was of such magnitude that there could be but two outcomes: thousands of lives saved, or millions of lives lost. A tense, vivid and revisionist account of a president who was then, and still is today, underestimated, Ike's Bluff is history at its most provocative and thrilling.
Author : Richard Striner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637584237
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Ike in Love and War written by Richard Striner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight D. Eisenhower is one of America’s greatest and least appreciated presidents. Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements. Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother’s pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age. More than other biographies, this one explores the man’s emotions. It puts the long-standing dispute about his romance with Kay Summersby in a new perspective: tragedy. Here is the story of a unique American, the passion and brilliance he kept concealed, the ambition that propelled him, the sacrifices that wore down his health, and the sheer self-mastery that made it all look easy. It never was. His achievements are timely as Americans face unprecedented dangers. This is the story of the world Ike made, the things he achieved, and the surprises that may still be in store for us as we strive to understand his life in full.
Author : Geoff Loftus
Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1418560588
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Lead Like Ike written by Geoff Loftus and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel, intriguing—and more importantly—highly instructive approach enabling us to truly grasp fundamental management principles. In the person of Dwight Eisenhower planning and executing the D-Day landings and the subsequent liberation of Europe, these basic concepts are vividly brought to life. As Loftus rightly observes, no CEO ever faced a more daunting, pressure-filled, obstacle-laden mission than did Ike. Perfect reading for these turbulent times.” —Steve Forbes, Chairman & CEO, Forbes Media “Geoff Loftus has written an intriguing and highly useful book on Dwight Eisenhower’s extraordinary ability as a leader. If you liked Ike before, you’ll like him even more now. And you’ll be grateful to Geoff Loftus.” —Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You for Smoking “In Lead Like Ike, Geoff Loftus provides keen insights on management lessons drawn from one of the greatest battlefields in military history. The lessons may appear simple, but it’s the simplest management principles that we often forget: Listen to your people. Set your vision. Be consistent about your message. Let your managers manage.” —Salvatore J. Vitale, Senior Vice President, The Conference Board Who was the greatest CEO of the 20th century? A persuasive case can be made for General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, who undertook history’s most harrowing executive assignment: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944. In Lead Like Ike, business journalist and communications guru Geoff Loftus weaves a fly on-the-wall narrative from Ike’s perspective as supreme allied commander overseeing the Normandy invasion. While swept into a gripping story that honors the sacrifice of all who fought and died on D-Day, you’ll also be drawn to a cache of battle-tested strategies and tactics with direct applications to modern-day business leadership.
Author : Louis Galambos
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439263
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Eisenhower written by Louis Galambos and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to be the best short biography of the thirty-fourth president of the United States, Eisenhower conclusively demonstrates how and why this master of the middle way became the successful leader of the free world.
Author : Bryan Carlile
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441506
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)
Download or read book After Ike written by Bryan Carlile and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day after Hurricane Ike made U.S. landfall at Galveston, Texas, photographer Bryan Carlile was in a helicopter, working a service contract as a first responder. He took with him a native Texan’s good memories of the Gulf Coast but brought back images that tell the sobering story of this massive and historic storm. After Ike includes more than one hundred aerial photographs Carlile took of the hurricane’s grim aftermath accompanied by Carlile’s eyewitness captions. In some places, Carlile is able to show images from “before Ike” that bring home the magnitude of the changes wrought to both natural and human habitats. In a thoughtful, personal essay, Andrew Sansom, who was raised on the Texas coast, reflects on the realities of living in “Hurricane Alley.”
Author : Jeffrey Frank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588205
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ike and Dick written by Jeffrey Frank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had a political and private relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, a tie that survived hurtful slights, tense misunderstandings, and the distance between them in age and temperament. Yet the two men brought out the best and worst in each other, and their association had important consequences for their respective presidencies. In Ike and Dick, Jeffrey Frank rediscovers these two compelling figures with the sensitivity of a novelist and the discipline of a historian. He offers a fresh view of the younger Nixon as a striving tactician, as well as the ever more perplexing person that he became. He portrays Eisenhower, the legendary soldier, as a cold, even vain man with a warm smile whose sound instincts about war and peace far outpaced his understanding of the changes occurring in his own country. Eisenhower and Nixon shared striking characteristics: high intelligence, cunning, and an aversion to confrontation, especially with each other. Ike and Dick, informed by dozens of interviews and deep archival research, traces the path of their relationship in a dangerous world of recurring crises as Nixon’s ambitions grew and Eisenhower was struck by a series of debilitating illnesses. And, as the 1968 election cycle approached and the war in Vietnam roiled the country, it shows why Eisenhower, mortally ill and despite his doubts, supported Nixon’s final attempt to win the White House, a change influenced by a family matter: his grandson David’s courtship of Nixon’s daughter Julie—teenagers in love who understood the political stakes of their union.
Author : American Breeders Association of Jacks and Jennets
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
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Author : Chester White Swine Record Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chester White Swine Record written by Chester White Swine Record Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 696 pages
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Author : Jim Newton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385534531
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Eisenhower written by Jim Newton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader.” —Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University; U.S. Senator (1997–2009) Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. America’s thirty-fourth president was belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief. This new look reveals how wrong they were. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed the atomic bomb and refused to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm." He stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, built an interstate highway system, turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. (Ike was the last President until Bill Clinton to leave his country in the black.) The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. He mourned the death of his first son and doted on his grandchildren but could, one aide recalled, "peel the varnish off a desk" with his temper. Mocked as shallow and inarticulate, he was in fact a meticulous manager. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools. Rare interviews, newly discovered records, and fresh insights undergird this gripping and timely narrative. JIM NEWTON is a veteran journalist who began his career as clerk to James Reston at the New York Times. Since then, he has worked as a reporter at the Atlanta Constitution and as a reporter, bureau chief and editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he presently is the editor-at-large and author of a weekly column. He also is an educator and author, whose acclaimed biography of Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, was published in 2006. He lives in Pasadena, CA.
Author : American Legion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Total Pages : 984 pages
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Author : George W. Riddle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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