Hello
I recently tried to read Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith and I stopped after 130 pages. could not get into it. I realized while I was reading that I don't particularly care about Eisenhower.
I have read the Churchill trilogy by Manchester, Harry Truman, Napoleon and Herbert Hoover all within the last few years.
The biography does not have to be about a political or military figure. Could be anybody.
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