Eisenhower: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century

Dwight David Eisenhower proudly claimed that he ôcame from the very heart of America.ö Yet it could be argued that, despite those provincial beginnings, no other American exerted more influence on world history during the twentieth century. From his humble birth in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower rose to the supreme command of the Allied armies that helped destroy Adolf HitlerAÆs Nazi war machine and to the presidency of the United States. Douglas KinnardAÆs profile of this great soldier-statesman d…