American Caesar: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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Few figures in American military history inspire as much fascination, controversy, and awe as General Douglas MacArthur — and William Manchester's American Caesar stands as the definitive account of his extraordinary life. Spanning eight decades from MacArthur's birth in 1880 to his death in 1964, this sweeping biography chronicles the general's meteoric rise through the ranks of the U.S. Army, his pivotal command in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, his audacious leadership during the Korean War, and his dramatic dismissal by President Truman — a clash of titanic egos that shook the foundations of American civil-military relations. Manchester brings to bear his formidable gifts as a narrative historian, painting MacArthur as a figure of Shakespearean complexity: a brilliant, vain, and deeply contradictory man whose genius for strategy was matched only by his hunger for glory. Drawing on exhaustive research, personal interviews, and primary sources, Manchester illustrates how MacArthur embodied both the grandeur and the hubris of American imperial ambition — a Caesar in khaki who reshaped the modern world yet remained, to the end, a man out of time. For anyone seeking to understand the intersection of military genius and personal mythology, American Caesar poses a question that lingers long after the final page: where does the legend end and the man begin?
Author: William Manchester
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in American military history inspire as much fascination, controversy, and awe as General Douglas MacArthur — and William Manchester's American Caesar stands as the definitive account of his extraordinary life. Spanning eight decades from MacArthur's birth in 1880 to his death in 1964, this sweeping biography chronicles the general's meteoric rise through the ranks of the U.S. Army, his pivotal command in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, his audacious leadership during the Korean War, and his dramatic dismissal by President Truman — a clash of titanic egos that shook the foundations of American civil-military relations. Manchester brings to bear his formidable gifts as a narrative historian, painting MacArthur as a figure of Shakespearean complexity: a brilliant, vain, and deeply contradictory man whose genius for strategy was matched only by his hunger for glory. Drawing on exhaustive research, personal interviews, and primary sources, Manchester illustrates how MacArthur embodied both the grandeur and the hubris of American imperial ambition — a Caesar in khaki who reshaped the modern world yet remained, to the end, a man out of time. For anyone seeking to understand the intersection of military genius and personal mythology, American Caesar poses a question that lingers long after the final page: where does the legend end and the man begin?