Letters to Mamie

Letters to Mamie
Title Letters to Mamie PDF eBook
Author Dwight David Eisenhower
Publisher Doubleday Books
Pages 288
Release 1978
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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This book contains a selection from the more than 300 letters written by Dwight D. Eisenhower to his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, during World War II. Included are Eisenhower's impressions of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and George Patton, and details of the planning of Operation OVERLORD and the Battle of the Bulge.

Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Mamie Doud Eisenhower
Title Mamie Doud Eisenhower PDF eBook
Author Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher
Pages 218
Release 2007
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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A biography of Mamie Eisenhower, who accomplished many things that were overlooked by her contemporaries and used her popularity to the benefit of her husband while changing the role of first lady, and covers her experience as an army wife and how it prepared her for the White House during the McCarthy era.

The Maimie Papers

The Maimie Papers
Title The Maimie Papers PDF eBook
Author Maimie Pinzer
Publisher Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages 528
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781558611436

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"An astonishing book. . . .Maimie wrote like a dream"--"New York Times Book Review"

I Love You, Michael Collins

I Love You, Michael Collins
Title I Love You, Michael Collins PDF eBook
Author Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Pages 241
Release 2017-06-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374303851

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A funny and heartwarming middle grade novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing.

Mrs. Ike

Mrs. Ike
Title Mrs. Ike PDF eBook
Author Susan Eisenhower
Publisher Capital Books
Pages 482
Release 2002
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781931868044

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In this superb biography of a complex marriage, Susan Eisenhower presents her grandmother as her grandfather saw her -- an heroic and irresistible figure in her own right.

Going Home To Glory

Going Home To Glory
Title Going Home To Glory PDF eBook
Author David Eisenhower
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 338
Release 2010-10-26
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 143919095X

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When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren, the oldest of whom, David, was just entering his teens. In this engaging and fascinating memoir, David Eisenhower—whose previous book about his grandfather, Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—provides a uniquely intimate account of the final years of the former president and general, one of the giants of the twentieth century. In Going Home to Glory, Dwight Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure. He was eager to advise, instruct, and assist his young grandson, but as a general of the army and president, he held to the highest imaginable standards. At the same time, Eisenhower was trying to define a new political role for himself. Ostensibly the leader of the Republican party, he was prepared to counsel his successor, John F. Kennedy, who sought instead to break with Eisenhower’s policies. (In contrast, Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, would eagerly seek Eisenhower’s advice.) As the tumultuous 1960s dawned, with assassinations, riots, and the deeply divisive war in Vietnam, plus a Republican nominee for president in 1964 whom Eisenhower considered unqualified, the former president tried to chart the correct course for himself, his party, and the country. Meanwhile, the past continued to pull on him as he wrote his memoirs, and publishers and broadcasters asked him to reminisce about his wartime experiences. When his grandfather took him on a post-presidential tour of Europe, David saw firsthand the esteem with which monarchs, prime ministers, and the people of Europe held the wartime hero. Then as later, David was under the watchful eye of a grandfather who had little understanding of or patience with the emerging rock ’n’ roll generation. But even as David went off to boarding school and college, grandfather and grandson remained close, visiting and corresponding frequently. David and Julie Nixon’s romance brought the two families together, and Eisenhower strongly endorsed his former vice-president’s successful run for the presidency in 1968. With a grandson’s love and devotion but with a historian’s candor and insight, David Eisenhower has written a remarkable book about the final years of a great American whose stature continues to grow.

Where Memories Go

Where Memories Go
Title Where Memories Go PDF eBook
Author Sally Magnusson
Publisher Two Roads
Pages 469
Release 2014-01-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1444751808

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'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph 'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday 'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro 'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social crisis my family was part of began to dawn, I wrote with the thought that other forgotten lives might be nudged into the light along with hers. Dementia is one of the greatest social, medical, economic, scientific, philosophical and moral challenges of our times. I am a reporter. It became the biggest story of my life.' Sally Magnusson Sad and funny, wise and honest, Where Memories Go is a deeply intimate account of insidious losses and unexpected joys in the terrible face of dementia, and a call to arms that challenges us all to think differently about how we care for our loved ones when they need us most. Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain in the grip of a disease which is fast becoming the scourge of the 21st century. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson, they had five children of whom Sally is the eldest. As well as chronicling the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs and joys that she and her sisters experienced while accompanying their beloved mother on the long dementia road for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally Magnusson seeks understanding from a range of experts and asks penetrating questions about how we treat older people, how we can face one of the greatest social, medical, economic and moral challenges of our times, and what it means to be human.