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1) Ike
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
Excerpts from news clips, photographs, and other documentary material that illustrate the life and career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While there have been many biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower that focus on his military career or the time of his presidency, none clearly explores the important role faith played both in his personal life and in his public policy. This despite the fact that he is the only US president to be baptized as a Christian while in office. Alan Sears and Craig Osten invite you on a journey that is unique in American history and is essential to understanding...
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
On the beaches of Normandy, the Allied invasion came face to face with the vaunted defenses of the German's "Atlantic Wall". Go behind the scenes to see how the leadership of Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower inspired thousands of brave men to risk their lives in an effort to crash through the wall of resistance that imprisoned Europe. Bonus : D-Day : D minus 1 -- Years before the largest human invasion in history was launched, Allied...
9) Ike and Kay
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Kay Summersbys life is changed forever when she is conscripted to drive General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. Despite Eisenhowers marriage to Mamie, the pair takes an immediate liking to each other and he buys Kay a rare wartime luxury: a box of chocolates. So begins a tumultuous relationship that, against all military regulation, sees Kay traveling with Eisenhower on missions to far-flung places before the final...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married...
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 34
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Encyclopedia of Presidents offers authoritative biographies of each president since 1789, when George Washington was first sworn inches The stories of these key figures and historic events paint a full and lively picture of our nation. Each biography includes color illustrations, a timeline, boxed features on events and people of special interest, and lively text introducing the featured president and the times in which he lived. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Citing the enduring popularity of America's 34th President, an original and penetrating assessment of Eisenhower analyzes his considerable influence on the Cold War, today's America and the nature of the presidency itself. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Bitter Road to Freedom.
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Series
Language
English
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January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking narrative of the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon--from the politics that divided them to the marriage that united their families. Despite being separated by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political ideology, foreign policy, and domestic goals.
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