Suddenly we are knee-deep in full-length biographies of President Eisenhower. Jean Edward Smith’s new biography, Eisenhower in War and Peace, follows biographies by Jim Newton published in 2011, Carlo d’Este in 2003, and Geoffrey Perret in 1999.
Before I read Gene Smith’s biography of John Pershing, Until the Last Trumpet Sounds, I had no idea that America’s one and only six-star general was such a babe magnet!
We’ve been warned for years about a coming American debt crisis: a day when markets and creditors would force the United States to raise taxes and cut spending in one sudden painful convulsion.