The problem I have with reading history books and biographies (I guess it's really not a "problem" - maybe a "difficulty" or a "challenge") is that it inevitably leads me to want to read more on the subject, and I end up going out and getting more books. So rather than reducing the number of books on my shelf that I want to read, I end up adding to the backlog. It's a vicious cycle.

I picked this book up at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg when I was there on a trip with our Boy Scout Troop. It was a good read and I learned some things about Dwight Eisenhower that I didn't know. It's not a comprehensive biography though - it's just little bits and pieces here and there about different times in his life. I get the sense that he wrote it in order to set the record straight on certain things that maybe he thought other biographies didn't get quite right - particularly his relationship with some controversial characters like Patton and MacArthur. Having not read any other biographies of Ike though, it left me wanting to know more in order to fill in the huge gaps between these small bits and pieces. So for starters I ordered "Crusade in Europe", which was a book he wrote in 1948 about his view of WWII in the European Theater. I look forward to diving into that when it arrives.