Ike : An American Hero

Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents-a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.

List of Illustration	p. xv
List of Maps	p. xvii
Author's Note	p. xix
The Making of a Hero
"Ike"	p. 3
"I Hope to God I Know What I'm Doing"	p. 24
"What a Man ... Did as a Boy"	p. 56
"Where Else Could You Get a College Education Without Cost?"	p. 84
Second Lieutenant Eisenhower	p. 105
"The Greatest Disappointment and Disaster in My Life"	p. 143
The Education of a Soldier	p. 157
The MacArthur Years	p. 185
Command
"As Soon as You Get a Promotion They Start Talking About Another One. Why Can't They Let a Guy Be Happy with What He Has?"	p. 231
London, 1942	p. 268
Algiers	p. 310
Sicily	p. 376
Victory
"Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces"-1944	p. 429
Triumph-D-Day, June 6, 1944	p. 475
Stalemate	p. 519
Armageddon, 1945	p. 552
"I Had Never Realized That Ike Was as Big a Man"	p. 584
The White House Years
"I Like Ike!"	p. 637
"And So We Came to Gettysburg and to the Farm We Had Bought Eleven Years Earlier, Where We Expected to Spend the Remainder of Our Lives"	p. 695
"Lower the Shades!"	p. 721
Acknowledgments	p. 725
Notes	p. 727
Bibliography	p. 743
Index	p. 749
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Ike : An American Hero

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