Video Description: In her new book, “How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions,” President Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan Eisenhower looks at key inflection points in her grandfather’s life, both as a military leader and a U.S. President, and demonstrates how taking the middle way, as he called it, contributed to accomplishments many have long forgotten from his time on the world stage. Go behind the pages of the biography in this interview with the author.

• Provide the video to students as a research source for their independent projects on Eisenhower, the 1950s, the Presidency, and related subjects.
• Use the video in a flipped learning activity focused on comparing Eisenhower’s leadership style to current Presidents. Have students come to class with two insights they’d like to share with the class and two questions they’d like to investigate in future research.
• As part of a character education conversation, based on what they learn in the interview, what adjectives would they use to describe Dwight David Eisenhower as a general, a president, and a grandfather. What overlap do they see in the characteristics no matter the position he was in?