Susan Eisenhower

Susan Eisenhower writes with sensitivity and insight about her grandmother bringing Mamie to life with vivid vignettes and anecdotes, Ike, too--I learned a great deal that was new to me about him. She gets the details and the whole, of the supposed affair with Kay Summersby exactly right, and shares with us Mamie's private and quite sensible reaction and response. Susan Eisenhower is an accomplished professional, the president of an international consulting firm. She also happens to be Ike's granddaughter--and in that role, she's the humble torchbearer for moderate "Eisenhower Republicans.".Increasingly, however, she says that the partisanship and free spending of the Bush presidency--and the takeover of the party by single-issue voters, especially pro-lifers--is driving these pragmatic, fiscally conservative voters out of the GOP. Susan Eisenhower has been a liberal for years.

Susan Eisenhower is an exceptionally intelligent, informed and serious person. Yet, consider how long it has taken someone with far more intellect than most people possess to come to such a determination and decision. Susan Eisenhower is President of the Eisenhower Group , Inc, which provides strategic counsel on political, business and public affairs projects. She has consulted for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies doing business in the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union and for a number of major institutions and companies engaged in the energy field. Susan Eisenhower helps readers see her grandmother as her husband did \u2013 a heroic and irresistible figure in her own right.