Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander ...

Brian C. Black’s “Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower’s 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel” (David R. Godine Publisher, 200 pgs., $28.95 hardback) is a nearly forgotten tale of westward ...