Presents a biography of the twelfth president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, and focusing on how he became elected despite never holding a lower political office, and describes the events that surrounded his the time in office, including California's application for statehood with an anti-slavery constitution.

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as "a son's view of a great military leader -- highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us." It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best. General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father. John chose...