Abilene, Kan.
- The next Lunch & Learn program is Thursday, February 28 at 12 p.m. in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium, 200 SE 4th, Abilene. Free and open to the public, a light lunch is provided on a first come, first serve basis.
John McManus will present "Echoes of Grant: The Second World War Leadership of Dwight Eisenhower" as part of the
Eisenhower’s Middle Road speaker series. They led in different eras, but the parallels between Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are striking. Both men were successful army commanders in high-stakes conflicts and then president, with deep convictions about racial equity and a determination to avoid war despite their military backgrounds. Eisenhower, in fact, greatly admired Grant, studying everything from his leadership style to his personality traits and scouring Grant's memoirs for lessons he could apply to the battlefield.
McManus, a Curator's Distinguished Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and one of the nation's top military historians, examines those close connections, delving in particular into Eisenhower's World War II military campaigns.
Eisenhower’s Middle Road exhibit is now on display at the Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Mo., where McManus will also present "Echoes of Grant" at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27. This exhibit and associated programming is made possible by a grant to the Eisenhower Foundation from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City.
The Lunch & Learn series is made possible courtesy of the Eisenhower Foundation and the Jeffcoat Memorial Foundation.
