Eisenhower at Columbia

From the beginning of World War II until he left the White House in early 1961, Dwight David Eisenhower played a leadership role on the world stage.

This was longer than any American since George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams.

His Columbia presidency was part of this period, yet the story has not been told.

Scholars have repeated earlier critical contemporary assessments and largely dismissed or ignored that part of his career.

Jacobs seeks to answer many of the open-ended questions about Eisenhower's tenure as successor to Nicholas Murray Butler, whom many consider the greatest university president of the century.