At ease: stories I tell to friends
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Garden City, NY Doubleday & Company 1967
- 400 p
Includes index. Partly autobiographical.
A man talking to himself -- To the point -- Book one: The Abilene years. Sauce for the gander -- The key to the closet -- Those I came from -- The "gem" on the plains -- Life with mother -- Footnotes for biographers -- Toward Annapolis -- Book Two: The peacetime army. Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1916 -- Camp Meade, Camp Colt: Training for the invisible war -- Through darkest America with truck and tank -- Colonel George Patton -- The tragic road to Panama -- The Generals: Pershing and MacArthur -- With MacArthur in the Philippines -- Book Three: At war. The states again -- Incidents at war -- More war stories -- Book four: At peace. Stories out of London, Berlin, Frankfurt -- Lost in the Pentagon -- New student at an old university -- Professor Ike -- The shape of things to come.
Anecdotes about the former President's family and military life, historical events, and institutions combine informal autobiography with history.