Description
Author: Alden Hatch
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover (no dust jacket)
Condition: Very Good; clean interior, light age toning; boards show mild wear consistent with age
ISBN: N/A (pre-ISBN era)
Description
Carpet for Mamie is an engaging and intimate portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower, written at the height of Eisenhower’s presidency by respected biographer Alden Hatch. Rather than a formal political biography, this book offers a revealing look at the personal character, marriage, and private habits of one of America’s most consequential presidents and his famously warm and influential wife.
Hatch had close access to political and military figures of the era, and his writing captures Eisenhower not only as a general and statesman, but as a man shaped by loyalty, friendship, and domestic life. Mamie Eisenhower emerges as a central presence—gracious, perceptive, and deeply attuned to the social realities of Washington power.
Written in a conversational yet authoritative style, Carpet for Mamie reflects the tone and optimism of postwar America while preserving firsthand insights into presidential life rarely found in later, more formal histories. This is a compelling mid-century document that bridges political history, biography, and social record.