Volume 28, Number 14 · September 24, 1981
Two Cheers for Ike
By Ronald Steel
The Eisenhower Diaries
edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Norton, 445 pp., $19.95
The Declassified Eisenhower
by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Doubleday, 432 pp., $17.95
Eisenhower and the Cold War
by Robert A. Divine
Oxford University Press, 182 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Doubleday, 368 pp., $14.95
Eisenhower the President: Crucial Days, 1951-1960
by William Bragg Ewald Jr.
Prentice-Hall, 336 pp., $12.95
Eisenhower's Lieutenants
by Russell F. Weigley
Indiana University Press, 824 pp., $22.50
Santayana's dictum may be all right for statesmen, but for historians it should be rephrased: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to rewrite it. The recent flood of Eisenhower books—a half-dozen or so this season, with a good many others on the way—demonstrates that old soldiers don't even fade away, they get reinterpreted.
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