Books

How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions

This book is a retrospective of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s wartime and presidential leadership. Ike was a strategic leader who relied on a rigorous pursuit of the facts for decision-making. His talent for envisioning a whole, especially in the context of the long game, and his ability to see causes and various consequences, explains his success as Allied Commander and as President. After making a decision, he made himself accountable for it, recognizing that personal responsibility is the bedrock of sound principles. How Ike Led is part leadership book, part history, and part memoir, with new insights on the man that only a family member could offer.

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St Martin’s Publishing Group (August 11, 2020)
ISBN: 1250238773

Mrs Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower

“Mrs. Ike is full of surprises and new documents, and it gives us a much fuller and fresher portrait of both Ike and Mamie than we have had before. Susan Eisenhower writes with sensitivity and insight about her grandmother and brings Mamie to life with fine vignettes and anecdotes. I learned a great deal that was new about Ike, too.”  
—Stephen E. Ambrose, historian, and biographer of numerous books on Dwight D. Eisenhower

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (November 1, 1996)
ISBN: 0374215146

Paperback & Kindle Publisher: Ferrous Books (November 18, 2011)
ISBN: 0984684204

Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution

This story chronicles the last years of the Soviet Union, bringing to life the rapidly changing events that shook the world.  Against this backdrop Susan Eisenhower tells the story of how she met and fell in love with one of that country’s leading scientists, Dr. Roald Sagdeev, who was also a leader of the USSR’s nascent reform and democracy movement.

“Susan Eisenhower has written an elegant and captivating book, interweaving romantic memoir and the inner history of one of the century’s most important moments. With great skill and poignancy, she has captured a period which thankfully now seems remote in time, that required her and millions of others to make brutal choices of both head and heart.”
—Michael Beschloss, Historian author of, among others, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev 1960–1963

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 1st edition (June 1, 1995)
ISBN: 0374262462

Partners in Space: U.S.-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War

Partners in Space: U.S.-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War explores the lessons learned by the United States during the International Space Station program. By tracing the diplomatic economic and commercial origins of the US-Russian partnership, it tells the story of how the world’s two great space powers overcame their Cold War rivalry to construct humanity’s greatest engineering achievement.

Susan Eisenhower, in conjunction with a team, compiled the text which comprises nearly 300 interviews with individuals involved in this period of U.S.-Russian collaboration in space.

Publisher: The Eisenhower Institute (November 1, 2004)
ISBN: 0974439401

American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

By John S.D. Eisenhower

“The blood and thunder of the Civil War comes alive in John Eisenhower’s American General, a brilliantly written and researched biography of William Tecumseh Sherman. Eisenhower’s delineation of Sherman’s Scorched Earth strategy is a must read. Highly recommended!”
—Douglas Brinkly, Professor of History at Rice University, CBS News Historian and NYTs Bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior

Susan Eisenhower’s contribution: Wrote the introduction, edited and brought this book to publication after the passing of the book’s author, military historian John S.D. Eisenhower. 

Publisher: New American Library (NAL); 1st edition (October 7, 2014)
ISBN: 0451471350

Thinking Beyond War: Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace

By Isaiah Wilson

Why was there a deliberate plan to fight the war in Iraq but none to win the peace? This question, which has caused such confusion and consternation among the American public and has been the subject of much political wrangling, is the focus of Isaiah Wilson’s investigation. Wilson points to a flaw in the government’s definition of when, how, and for what reasons the United States intervenes abroad.

Susan Eisenhower’s contribution: Senator Jack Reed and Susan Eisenhower provided the introductions.

Publisher: Palgrave (2007, updated version 2013)
ISBN: 1137344423

Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales

This anthology, edited and introduced by Willee Lewis, with a forward written by George Plimpton, is a collection of contemporary stories together with a selection of writings by a number of literary figures regarding one of humankind’s most disliked creatures, the snake.

Susan Eisenhower’s contribution: Wrote a chapter of the book in which she tells her own humorous, personal story about snakes.

Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc (August 28, 2003)
ISBN: 1590770080

Nato Enlargement: Illusions and Reality

“Expanding NATO—and thus transforming the world’s strongest military alliance—is the most significant shift in American Foreign policy in recent years. This intelligent book provides a sustained and comprehensive critique of enlargement. Advocates of enlargement must respond to it, and all interested Americans must read it.”
—Fareed Zakaria, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

Susan Eisenhower’s contribution: Authored “Part Two: NATO Enlargement and Russia’s Relations with the West. The Perils of Victory”.

Publisher: CATO Institute (1998)