Examines Ike's varied experiences and intellectual ideas concerning politics, military strategy, and history in the decades between the wars.
Preface
On the Trail of Eisenhower
Place and Time
Happiness and the Homefront
The Visionary
Mentors, Friends, and Enemies
Schooling for War
Politics
Overseas Adventures
The Return of the Soldier
Divine Destiny
Selected Bibliography
Index
MATTHEW F. HOLLAND is Center Director at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Tucson, Arizona. A former officer in the U.S. Army, he is the author of America and Egypt: From Roosevelt to Eisenhower (Praeger, 1996).
"Matthew Holland has made a very useful contriubution to
scholarship on Dwight D. Eisenhower....[H]ollan's account of the
neglected period of Eisenhower in the inter-war years adds weight
to the revisionist interpretaion....[t]he overall argument is
persuasive. Holland's account makes plain that the president of the
1950s was not Ulysses Grant, a malleable military figurehead, but a
leader with considerable political skills and solid accomplishments
and experience which provided impressive credentials for his
presidency."-Intelligence & National Security
?An interesting and often insightful look at the professional and
social forces that helped shape Eisenhower as a soldier between the
world wars....a useful read for anyone intersted in the development
of the U.S. Army in the period, or the history of the ETO.?-The
NYMAS Newsletter
?Eisenhower Between the Wars is a solid piece of revisionist work
on an area of Eisenhower's life that has received too little
attention: the interwar years...fills a long-term need in
Eisenhower scholarship...Matthew Holland's book makes an important
contribution to our understanding of Dwight Eisenhower. Future
Eisenhower scholars will want to consult this book and consider its
arguments carefully.?-The Journal of Military History
?Matthew Holland has made a very useful contriubution to
scholarship on Dwight D. Eisenhower....[H]ollan's account of the
neglected period of Eisenhower in the inter-war years adds weight
to the revisionist interpretaion....[t]he overall argument is
persuasive. Holland's account makes plain that the president of the
1950s was not Ulysses Grant, a malleable military figurehead, but a
leader with considerable political skills and solid accomplishments
and experience which provided impressive credentials for his
presidency.?-Intelligence & National Security
"An interesting and often insightful look at the professional and
social forces that helped shape Eisenhower as a soldier between the
world wars....a useful read for anyone intersted in the development
of the U.S. Army in the period, or the history of the ETO."-The
NYMAS Newsletter
"Eisenhower Between the Wars is a solid piece of revisionist work
on an area of Eisenhower's life that has received too little
attention: the interwar years...fills a long-term need in
Eisenhower scholarship...Matthew Holland's book makes an important
contribution to our understanding of Dwight Eisenhower. Future
Eisenhower scholars will want to consult this book and consider its
arguments carefully."-The Journal of Military History
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