Milton S. Eisenhower, Educational Statesman

by Stephen E. Ambrose, Richard H. Immerman

Overview

Milton S. Eisenhower was one of the most honored and influential statesmen this country has produced. His career spanned government and higher education, and he was a shaping force in both.

This biography by Stephen E. Ambrose and Richard H. Immerman traces the 34th President's younger brother's path from small-town Kansas into the Washington bureaucracy and on through the presidencies of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins. Because Eisenhower himself wrote about his government service in two books, Ambrose and Immerman have concentrated instead on his career as an educator. The portrait they paint is based upon extensive research and interviewing, but it is richly colored with anecdotes, opinions, and personal narrative.

The portrait of Milton Eisenhower that emerges in this book is of a personable, diplomatic, highly effective administrator—innovative, intuitive, abundantly energetic, tenacious, and combative when necessary. The final section of the book depicts a spirited octogenarian whose contributions to American life continued even after more than a decade of official "retirement."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801892677
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	05/25/2009
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) was the author of many books on American history, including Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West and Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945, as well as Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point, which was also published by Johns Hopkins. He was the founder of the National D-Day Museum, in New Orleans.

Richard H. Immerman is the Edward J. Buthusiem Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History and the Marvin Wachman Director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University. He is the author and coauthor of many books on American history, including John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy and Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy.

Date of Birth:

January 10, 1936

Date of Death:

October 13, 2002

Place of Birth:

Whitewater, Wisconsin

Place of Death:

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Education:

B.A., University of Wisconsin; M.A., Louisiana State University, 1958; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1963

Table of Contents

Preface
1. "We'll All Help Push!": Return to Johns Hopkins
2. "Opportunity Is All About You- Reach Out and Take It": Storybook Childhood in Abilene
3. "I Would Lose All Nervousness": Kansas State, Ramsay Lodge, and Marriage
4. "Love Life of the Bullfrog": Washington Bureaucrat
5. "The Greatest Possible Speed Is Imperative": Washington Administrator
6. "Our Concern Is with the Education of Men and Women Determined to Be Free": Return to Kansas State
7. "Unsophisticated, Unspoiled, Eager to Learn": The Students at Kansas State
8. "To Change the Character of the Institution": Penn State
9. "Days of Tension and Hysteria": Deans, Faculty- and Civil Liberties at Penn State
10. "How Much I Have Valued Your Counsel": A Brother in the White House
11. "Milton Eisenhower Is Not a Loner": Helen's Death and the Decision to Leave Penn State
12. "There Is Nothing Else Like It Anyplace": The Johns Hopkins University
13. "The Whole Thing Is One Massive Personal Equation": Assistants and Faculty at Johns Hopkins
14. "When the Light Is On": The Students at Johns Hopkins
15. "Goddammit, If I Had Moved to Palm Springs, This Wouldn't Be Happening!": Retirement and Return
16. "Democracy Contains the Seeds of Its Own Destruction": On the State of the Union
17. "A Smile on His Face, a Twinkle in His Eyes, and a Forward-looking Attitude": In Retirement
Appendix A: Inaugural Address, Kansas State College, September 20, 1943
Appendix B: The Presidency: Can Anyone Do the Job?
Appendix C: Eisenhower to Senator Charles McC. Mathias, October 12 and November 9, 1979
Appendix D: Violent Crime: An Overview
Appendix E: Commencement Address, The Johns Hopkins University, June 13, 1967
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index