Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader

ISBN 10: 0803229305 / ISBN 13: 9780803229303

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2001

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General Douglas MacArthur has been hailed as the greatest soldier in American history. While not everyone would agree with that assessment, there is no question that MacArthur played a prominent role in the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. A distinguished combat soldier during World War I and an innovative educator at West Point in the 1920s, MacArthur became the army’s chief of staff during the Great Depression. He went abroad in the 1930s to prepare the Philippines for war. His stand against the Japanese following Pearl Harbor made him a national hero, and his subsequent campaign against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific only added to his reputation. The Korean War gave MacArthur a final opportunity to display his military skills.

MacArthur and the American Century assembles for the first time a nuanced and full scrutiny of MacArthur’s entire career. Essays by such experts as Stanley L. Falk and D. Clayton James accompany materials by Dwight D. Eisenhower and MacArthur himself, providing analysis and evaluation of the immense impact this dramatic figure had on war, peace, and the American imagination.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

William M. Leary is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His books include We Shall Return! MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945.

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Titel: Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good