At Ease Stories I Tell to Friends Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower Here are stories told for the simple pleasure of telling them. In warm and personal terms, the military hero who became our thirty-fourth president writes about his life, his acquaintances both celebrated and little known, and the history that enfolded before his eyes. We learn about his life at West Point and before, in-turn-of-the-century Kans... more »as, when the Wild West had just become the rural West. Here are the dreams of adventure that carried Dwight Eisenhower from the wrong side of the tracks in Abilene to the leadership of a great alliance and military expedition, a great university, and a great nation.« less