Dwight Eisenhower is a typical embodiment of the “American dream”: a person from a poor family who headed the state. He is the only US president to become world famous before he assumed the highest office of government, as commander in chief of the Anglo-American army that opened a second front in Europe and met allied Soviet forces in the heart of Nazi Germany. General Eisenhower refused to capture Berlin, believing that this right should belong to the Red Army; in 1945 he stood next to Stalin on the podium of the Mausoleum and received the Order of Victory from the hands of Marshal Zhukov. His presidency saw the first attempt at international détente and the first steps in space exploration, high-profile international scandals over the downing of a spy plane over Soviet territory, CIA-organized coups in other countries, “witch hunts,” the expansion of civil rights for the black population and construction federal roads. The book, based on materials from American archives, tells the story of a general who hated wars and the only president in the 20th century under whom the United States did not fight.