Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Art of Leadership: A New Look at the General and President

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an excellent leader by virtually every measure.Yet by that same measure, excellent political, business, scientific, philanthropic, educational, cultural, and military leaders crowd four centuries of American history.What makes Eisenhower nearly unique is that he accomplished a feat matched by just two other Americans.Like George Washington and Ulysses Grant, Eisenhower served as both the army’s commanding five star general and the nation’s commander in chief during two full terms as president. Critics find Eisenhower easy to dismiss or downgrade.He was stolid, not dazzling, proficient, not brilliant, modest, not boastful, amiable, not flamboyant.Yet, during the Second World War, Eisenhower did not preside over but decisively led the victorious campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, the Low Countries, and Germany that first crushed Mussolini’s Italy then Hitler’s Third Reich from the west as the Soviet Red army crushed it from the east.From 1953 to 1961, he