Ambrose completely went in depth into the history of Eisenhower from beginning to the end. Most of his information was derived from letters that Eisenhower wrote over the years, which helped to give a better picture of who he was based on his own writings. This is a great and thorough work on the different aspects of his life from growing up in Kansas, to his going to West Point and finally to his time in the Army. There are many examples in his texts that Ambrose remarks on the ingenuity and decisiveness of Eisenhower. In Eisenhower: Soldier and President, Ambrose remarks of how there was a time in which Eisenhower “didn’t like the way that there was a particularly way an instructor wanted him to answer a mathematical problem because he had found a simpler way in which to solve it and the …show more content…
He highlights into how superb Eisenhower was in the area of finances. Having took office following the war, he had a desire to restore the economy and waste and abuse was not acceptable to him. He wanted the government to invest back into its citizens. Eisenhower claimed that “every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”. Smith even covers areas of Eisenhower’s life in which he displayed his human nature and made mistakes, like for instance his inappropriate connections with his driver, Kay Summersby. It revealed that although Eisenhower was very direct minded and focused on doing what was right and necessary, that even he was vulnerable to choices that were not