{"product_id":"gently-in-manner-strongly-in-deed-poems-on-eisenhower-9781958182598","title":"Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed: Poems on Eisenhower","description":"Author's Notes on Second Edition: \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore going to West Point, Dwight D. Eisenhower \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etook a job at a local creamery. This was also where his father \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworked as a refrigeration engineer. A portion of his pay went \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto funding his brother's college education, and Ike himself \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas without concrete plans for his future. One day on the job, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEisenhower accidentally fell into a large cooling tank filled with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecold salt water. After his coworkers pulled him out, he looked at \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis saviors and said, \"You should have pushed me under.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's hard to imagine this man years later, pacing the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrounds of Greenham Common Airfield as the D-Day invasion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas in full swing. Before he became himself, he was a Kansan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho drove a battery-operated car designed for women and barely \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emanaged entry into West Point on football scholarship. He spent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis time in training dreaming of moving to South America and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecoming a Cowboy (a fate that almost came to fruition). His \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewife and her father refused to let him become a pilot, so he \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esettled for work that propelled him to victory of fascism, the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresidency, and world wide admiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere in there, he managed to prop up some pet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edictators in Latin America and seal us into a very long and cold \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eideological war. He was a Republican who created federal jobs, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efavored a 90 percent corporate tax rate, and expanded social \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecurity. He was a unionist and a man of business. He was a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esoldier who ended his presidency with a chilling speech that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaccurately predicted our future reliance on the military industrial \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplex and shunned war outright as impractical and outright evil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHypocrisy and complexity are two sides of something, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm sure. To be honest, I don't know where to draw the line, nor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan I guarantee that if one were to venture into the space between, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat there would be anything worth a second glance. However, I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eam moved by the stories within, and have done my best to stay \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrue to my instinctual, though fickle inclinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is not much different than the first. It \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeatures far less commentary and a little more poetry. A few of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe poems have been edited. The original edition was the raw, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunvetted text of a Master's thesis. This is something else; this is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the very least something new. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Tarkelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarch 2, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Tarkelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spartan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958182598\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spartan Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43639920263283,"sku":"9.78196E+12","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d320b00b-cc76-401c-88a0-90f24b1e3d12.jpg?v=1755696014","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gently-in-manner-strongly-in-deed-poems-on-eisenhower-9781958182598","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}