Books: Unhurried Stroll

AT EASE: STORIES I TELL TO FRIENDS by Dwight D. Eisenhower. 400 pages. Doubleday. $6.95.

In Dwight Eisenhower's three volumes covering World War II and a major portion of his presidency, his prose was always at Attention or, at best, a stiff Parade Rest. At last Ike is At Ease. He writes of this book: "It will be fun just to wander, with no worries about verbosity, coherence, repetitions or literary criticism."

A "fun" author Eisenhower will never be. But this meandering autobiography does offer a refreshingly human review of Ike's life as he...

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