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About 179 pages (53,662 words) in 32 products |
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Stephen E. Ambrose | | Birth Date: |
January 10, 1936 | | Death Date: |
October 13, 2002 | | Place of Birth: |
Decatur, Illinois, United States | | Place of Death: |
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Educator |
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 Biography of Stephen E. Ambrose
4,874 words, approx. 16 pages
 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 D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Stephen Ambrose Information
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
 Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon. He received his Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of...
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 The New York Observer Here\'d5s an Original Thought: How Can Anyone Steal Words?
5/7/2006: 1,015 words, approx. 3 pagesI 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 Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty. I have... summary from source:
The New York Observer Here's an Original Thought: How Can Anyone Steal Words?
5/7/2006: 1,015 words, approx. 3 pagesI 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 Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty. I... summary from source:
The New York Observer In a Murky and Distant War It Comes Down to Warriors
8/14/2005: 1,148 words, approx. 4 pagesHenry 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 possession in the Western Hemisphere. But once the guns went off, he lost interest in the details, assuming that... summary from source:
The New York Observer Honest Abe to the Rescue\'d1 Goodwin Needs Him; Nation, Too
11/13/2005: 1,572 words, approx. 5 pagesOne 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 observed closely during his Presidency and post-Presidency. In the years that followed, she built...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Alan Brinkley
4,684 words, approx. 16 pages
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 profile. However, Brinkley concludes that, while offering no new information, Ambrose's biography relates “a familiar story with uncommon balance, skill, and grace—and with a fullness and detail that no previous work can match.”
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Critical Review by Sidney Blumenthal
3,541 words, approx. 12 pages
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” point of reference for Nixon studies, but Ambrose's “professionally ‘balanced’ approach to an unbalanced subject does not penetrate deep enough.”
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