Milton S. Eisenhower was one of the most honored and influential statesmen this country has produced. His career spanned government and higher education, and he was a shaping force in both. This biography by Stephen E. Ambrose and Richard H. Immerman traces the 34th President's younger brother's path from small-town Kansas into the Washington bureaucracy and on through the presidencies of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins. Because Eisenhower himself wrote about his government service in two books, Ambrose and Immerman have concentrated instead on his career as an educator. The portrait they paint is based upon extensive research and interviewing, but it is richly colored with anecdotes, opinions, and personal narrative. The portrait of Milton Eisenhower that emerges in this book is of a personable, diplomatic, highly effective administrator -- innovative, intuitive, abundantly energetic, tenacious, and combative when necessary. The final section of the book depicts a spirited octogenarian whose contributions to American life continued even after more than a decade of official 'retirement.
Preface1. ""We'll All Help Push!"": Return to Johns Hopkins2. ""Opportunity Is All About You- Reach Out and Take It"": Storybook Childhood in Abilene3. ""I Would Lose All Nervousness"": Kansas State, Ramsay Lodge, and Marriage4. ""Love Life of the Bullfrog"": Washington Bureaucrat5. ""The Greatest Possible Speed Is Imperative"": Washington Administrator6. ""Our Concern Is with the Education of Men and Women Determined to Be Free"": Return to Kansas State7. ""Unsophisticated, Unspoiled, Eager to Learn"": The Students at Kansas State8. ""To Change the Character of the Institution"": Penn State9. ""Days of Tension and Hysteria"": Deans, Faculty- and Civil Liberties at Penn State10. ""How Much I Have Valued Your Counsel"": A Brother in the White House11. ""Milton Eisenhower Is Not a Loner"": Helen's Death and the Decision to Leave Penn State12. ""There Is Nothing Else Like It Anyplace"": The Johns Hopkins University13. ""The Whole Thing Is One Massive Personal Equation"": Assistants and Faculty at Johns Hopkins14. ""When the Light Is On"": The Students at Johns Hopkins15. ""Goddammit, If I Had Moved to Palm Springs, This Wouldn't Be Happening!"": Retirement and Return16. ""Democracy Contains the Seeds of Its Own Destruction"": On the State of the Union17. ""A Smile on His Face, a Twinkle in His Eyes, and a Forward-looking Attitude"": In RetirementAppendix A: Inaugural Address, Kansas State College, September 20, 1943Appendix B: The Presidency: Can Anyone Do the Job?Appendix C: Eisenhower to Senator Charles McC. Mathias, October 12 and November 9, 1979Appendix D: Violent Crime: An OverviewAppendix E: Commencement Address, The Johns Hopkins University, June 13, 1967NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
