generation needs more honesty and humility. he explores the lives of president dwight d. eisenhower, dorothy day and five star general george c. marshall and how life's stumbles can ultimately be the building blocks of success. i was especially taken i always liked this. you think of it as character. character is constancy. sticking to what you really believe no matter how much the wind blows against you. and ike didn't take us into indochina in '64 and he didn't go along with the clamor for war in the late '50s. he fought against the industrial military complex being pushed by jack kennedy and rockefeller. he was constant in his character. tell me about your views as you shaped the book? >> i would say that started from the fact that he had an inner core that was even below politics. he had a problem with it. at night during the war when he