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Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969. By David Eisenhower with Julie Nixon Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. 323pp.
President Eisenhower's public life has been thoroughly examined by historians, political scientists, and military analysts for decades. These accounts have developed a composite of Eisenhower as military general, war hero, and chief executive of the United States. In Going Home to Glory, David Eisenhower's rendering of President Eisenhower's postpresidential life is a unique addition to this body of scholarship and provides special insights into the intricate dynamics of the personal and political demands and burdens of a former president.
Going Home to Glory is one in a long line of volumes written by presidential kin, who use their experiences to humanize their father/grandfather and further massage the legacy of the president in focus. David Eisenhower was able to rely on much of the voluminous research performed for his 1986 examination oí Eisenhower at War 1943-1945 (Random House, 1991) to further scrutinize the life of President Eisenhower for this book. In addition, the younger Eisenhower supplements the interviews from his earlier research...