It is not often that an historian joins the ranks of authors on the bestseller lists, but Stephen E. Ambrose has managed to do just that with a clutch of historical accounts of World War II--including...
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In the following review, Keegan offers positive evaluation of Ambrose's two-volume biography of Eisenhower.
“Eisenhower,” this magnificent biography begins [Eisenhower: Soldier...
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In the following review of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, Neuhaus commends Ambrose's “exhaustive” and even-handed scholarship, but contends that he is not succes...
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In the following excerpted review essay, Strong offers positive evaluation of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, but concludes that many questions about Nixon's personal motivatio...
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In the following excerpted review, Dallek concludes that Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 adds little to existing information about Nixon and, furthermore, includes contradictory assessme...
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In the following review, Wilz offers positive evaluation of Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 and Eisenhower: The President.
Three years after leaving the White H...
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In the following review, Kentleton offers positive assessment of Eisenhower and the German POWs.
In 1989 James Bacque in Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of W...
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In the following review of Eisenhower: The President, Parmet concludes that Ambrose's work is “by far the best and most authoritative Eisenhower biography available.”
“E...
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In the following review, Ziemke concludes that Eisenhower and the German POWs does not adequately explain the deaths of German POWs in Allied prison camps.
World War II as specialty has an occupati...
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In the following essay, Jaschik discusses Ambrose's scholarly interests, his use of oral history to compose D-Day, June 6, 1944, and critical reaction to his portrayal of the Normandy invasion ...
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In the following review, O'Neill offers praise for D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Cornelius Ryan's classic The Longest Day, though still a wonderful read, came out in 1959 when much vital infor...
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In the following excerpt, d'Este concludes that D-Day, June 6, 1944 is “enormously readable and will undoubtedly become a standard work of its genre,” despite its overemphasis on ...
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In the following review, Wilt offers positive evaluation of D-Day, June 6, 1944, though finds shortcomings in Ambrose's overstated comparison of Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel, his generalizations...
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In the following review, Harden offers positive assessment of Undaunted Courage.
Feeling unmoved? Sensing perhaps that you live in uninteresting times? Weary of politicians who define vision as kic...
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In the following review, Theroux offers positive assessment of Undaunted Courage.
On July 4, 1803, the nation's 27th birthday, the very same day Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States,...
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In the following review, Wood offers favorable evaluation of Undaunted Courage.
The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 is the greatest adventure of exploration in American history. The ...
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In the following review of Undaunted Courage, Limerick finds shortcomings in Ambrose's military perspective and uncritical admiration of Lewis and Clark.
Imagine that you are a student and t...
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In the following review, Boyle concludes that Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment is “a useful addition to scholarship on Eisenhower.”
In 1990, on the occasion of the one hundredth ann...
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In the following review, Warren offers favorable evaluation of Eisenhower: The President, but concludes that many questions concerning Eisenhower's complex personality remain unanswered.
As ...
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In the following review of Undaunted Courage, Furtwangler concludes that Ambrose fails to capture the literary and larger philosophical dimensions of the book's subject.
This book has had wi...
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In the following review, Emmerich offers generally positive assessment of Undaunted Courage.
This work is the story of two magnificent obsessions. The first, as is obvious from the title, is the ep...
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In the following review, Lamar offers favorable evaluation of Undaunted Courage, praising Ambrose's narrative skill and successful effort to humanize Meriwether Lewis.
Stephen E. Ambrose, th...
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In the following review, Bunting offers positive assessment of The Victors and Ambrose's focus on the military experiences of individual soldiers.
For whom is serious history written? The Am...
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In the following review, Weinberg offers favorable assessment of Nothing Like It in the World.
When I was young, the building of the interstate highway system transformed the U.S. The obstacles wer...
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In the following review of Nothing Like It in the World, Limerick criticizes Ambrose's uncritical generalizations about the American transcontinental railroad and his sentimental view of its co...
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In the following review, Harwood offers positive assessment of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962.
Richard Nixon marked his 74th birthday on Jan. 9, one of those bittersweet occasions,...
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In the following review, Parmet offers positive assessment of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962.
In the aftermath of his Presidency, the consensus view of Richard M. Nixon was nowhere...
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In the following review of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, Hoff-Wilson finds weaknesses in Ambrose's reliance on dubious primary sources and his lack of original analysis.
O...
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In the following review of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, Charmley praises Ambrose's study of Nixon as “a superb biography which comes as near to explaining its subject...
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In the following review of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, Blumenthal writes that Ambrose's “old-fashioned sort of biography” serves as a “standard”...
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In the following review of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, Brinkley finds shortcomings in Ambrose's unwillingness to offer speculative analysis of Nixon's psychological ...
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The WriterThe original ‘Band of Brothers’ book was written by
Stephen
Ambrose
, a prominent historian and self-confessed ‘hero worshipper’ who wanted to pay homage to those...
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I wanted to buy How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan, but now I will have to wait until she removes the parts she plagiarized from Sloppy First...
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I wanted to buy How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan, but now I will have to wait until she removes the parts she plagiarized from Sloppy First...
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Henry Adams lobbied for the Spanish-American War for years, ghosting speeches for key Senators, plotting with fellow hawks like Theodore Roosevelt, even visiting Cuba, Spain’s prize possessio...
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One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a shrewd look at the oversized Texan she’d obser...
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One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a shrewd look at the oversized Texan she’d obser...
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