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 ...

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 ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...

“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 him in two presidential elections over the ...

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 ...

It was the first presidential election I remember: 1952, Eisenhower vs. Stevenson. I was 7 and a student in Mrs. Collins’ third-grade class at Corona del Mar Elementary School — a leafy, secreted ...