The length of Michael Korda's 800-page biography of Dwight David Eisenhower is fully justified. Its subject, the man beloved universally as Ike, was not only the supreme commander of Allied forces in World War II; he was a two-term U.S. president at a critical time in the postwar period. Korda, the author of the acclaimed Ulysses S. Grant, devotes most of this openly sympathetic bio to Eisenhower's long and distinguished military career. With unforgettable anecdotes, he renders the mild-mannered general's uncanny ability to balance and neutralize egotistical, willful Allied leaders including Churchill, Patton, Montgomery, and De Gaulle. The first full-length Eisenhower biography in years.