TLS [7], 1964-1967 : Gettysburg, PA, Indio, CA, and Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., to Stephen E. Ambrose, Baltimore, MD.

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TLS [7], 1964-1967 : Gettysburg, PA, Indio, CA, and Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., to Stephen E. Ambrose, Baltimore, MD.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17934512

Written to Ambrose, who was Associate Editor of the Eisenhower Papers, Eisenhower discusses such varied subjects as Civil War generals, a proposed military biography of Eisenhower by Ambrose, FDR and the Soviets during WWII, and a manuscript called "Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945". The typed document signed by Eisenhower is the foreword to Ambrose's book "Duty, Honor, Country" about West Point Military Academy.

9 p. ; 26 x 18 cm. (6 1 p. letters and 1 3 p. DS)

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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