 This resulted in a book on Eisenhower's war years, "The Supreme Commander" (1970) and a two-volume full biography (published 1983 and 1984), which are considered "the standard" on the subject.Regarding the first volume, Gordon Harrison, writing for the "New York Times", proclaimed, "It is Mr. Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center.