"An appreciation of history and the outdoors, self-reliance, and ruddy athleticism were among the traits Ike learned in Abilene - along with a fierce will and a clumsy way with women -but what may have most shaped him in those early years were his lessons in moderation, the skill he developed as a boy to navigate between powerful forces, to fight his way past school-yard bullies, and to claim a place in his crowded home of brothers."
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