{"product_id":"ike-an-american-hero-9780060756666","title":"Ike: An American Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A brilliantly vibrant and compulsively readable one-volume life of one of the giants of the twentieth century.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Michael Beschloss\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A clear-eyed, grand-scale biography. . . . [Eisenhower] provides a vivid lesson in leadership at just the moment when leadership is of such paramount importance to the nation and the world.\"--David McCullough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIke\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, the first single volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower to appear in decades, Michael Korda offers an honest and penetrating look at the general and president reverentially known as Ike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of fascinating details and anecdotes drawn from a rich treasure of letters, diaries, and historical documents, \u003cem\u003eIke\u003c\/em\u003e shows how Eisenhower's genius as a commander and a leader, his generosity of spirit, and his devotion to duty were vital in achieving victory, and formed, in many ways large and small, the world in which we now live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060756666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2008 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Korda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916716019893,"sku":"9780060756666","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_17354112-355b-4cde-b240-d9689024e285.jpg?v=1687269283","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ike-an-american-hero-9780060756666","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}