When Dwight Eisenhower decided to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 1952, obstacles loomed: His record as the hero of World War II might not translate well to a political ...

If Dwight Eisenhower qualifies as one of the most influential Americans during the 20th century, then a woman from Denver deserves plenty of attention. Her birth name was Mamie Geneva Doud. She came ...

The Associated Press and Diversion Books have republished "Dwight D. Eisenhower," a biography by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Relman Morin, on today’s 72nd anniversary of D-Day. Morin ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Potato love” was the dismissive phrase Saul Bellow used in the 1960s to describe Dwight Eisenhower’s deep and broad appeal to the American public, who chose ...

The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. long claimed that American politics moved in cycles. Every few decades, he suggested, the nation witnessed a swing of the pendulum, with power and ideological ...

I worried, almost from the beginning of my research into the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, that something did not quite add up with Stephen Ambrose’s famous biography of the former president. I say ...

See Ike build the interstate highway system? Ike was a nice man. Ike was a great general. Ike was a very good president. And there you have it in Paul Johnson’s fawning, glowing air-kiss to the 34th ...

As I open Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy biography, I anticipate a good read. I'm an admirer of Tomalin's previous biographies (Jane Austen and Samuel Pepys, among them). I know the Penguin Press ...

John Rubinstein’s first encounter with 34th U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was not the one-man play that he performs around the country. “I met him in the White House when I was 8 or 9 years ...