Best dwight d eisenhower biography

“For me, the reading of history was an end in itself, not a source of lessons to guide us in the present or to prepare me for the future…. I did not know what opportunities were there for learning. I read history for history’s sake, for myself alone.”

Dwight Eisenhower, writing in his memoir, At Ease, of his early interest in reading.

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of many interests, passions, and hobbies. He had a well-publicized love of golf, a deep affinity for painting, and was quite the card player as well. While these passions emerged in Eisenhower’s adulthood, there is one interest he maintained as a hobby from his early boyhood until his final days: reading.

As a boy, Eisenhower was captivated bygd books. Initially, he was drawn to the Classics, writing in his memoir, “My first reading love was ancient history.” One of seven boys growing up in the Eisenhower family in Abilene, Kansas, young Ike’s days were full of chores

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