I enjoyed this breezy joint biography of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The author pairs the two Presidents as rising from obscurity in the Middlewest, Kansas and Missouri, born just 7 years apart.
I have always been intrigued by the Eisenhower brothers. There were six of them, and they were all very successful, not just Dwight David. They all came from a lower Middle Class background and a small town in Kansas.
The same with Truman. The author makes the point others have made that Truman's service commanding men in World War I, the famous Battery D, that gave him the confidence that he command men. Eisenhower, the famous desk general, learned his leadership skills at West Point and years of service before World War II made him famous.
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