Beverly GageWhile he rejects Eisenhower's reputation as a "weak president," Newton is frank about his subject's failings, especially on civil rights. And while he can wax rhapsodic…Newton remains critical of Eisenhower, both as a man and as a political actor. The result is an engaging if conflicted work of presidential history…
—The Washington Post
Publishers WeeklyThe political skills Dwight Eisenhower honed while commanding a fractious WWII alliance made for a great presidency, according to this appreciative but also probing biography. L.A. Times editor-at-large Newton lauds the 34th president's "middle way" rejecting extremes of left and right—including the anti–New Deal ravings of his ultra-conservative brother and the anticommunist witch hunts of fellow Republican Joseph McCarthy—to extract peace and prosperity during the turbulent 1950s.
