What is the main conflict in Eisenhower: Soldier and President by Stephen E. Ambrose?

Eisenhower Solider and President takes the reader not only through but also inside the life of Dwight Eisenhower from his early childhood in Abilene, Kansas, to his military beginnings at West Point, his time as Supreme Commander and President of the United States of America until his death at the age of seventy-three in 1969.