The Eisenhower Diaries

The diaries of the late Dwight D. Eisenhower are unique documents, in that they alone, in the mass of Ike’s prose, reveal the innermost thoughts of the soldier-statesman. In his books—the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his life—Eisenhower related the course of events over the years, with descriptive detail and frequently with humor, but he usually stayed away from analysis. In his many private let...