Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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.
33889
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
Biography--United States
Biography--United States
973.910924 Eis 15
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.
33889
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
Biography--United States
Biography--United States
973.910924 Eis 15