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Douglas MacArthur : American warrior / Arthur Herman.

by Herman, Arthur, 1956-

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Random House, 2016.

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.

United States. Army -- Biography.

Generals -- United States -- Biography.

9780812994889 (hc)

xv, 937 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The son of the father -- Turning points -- Glory days -- Young man going east -- Countdown to war -- Into the fire -- Fight to the finish -- Back to West Point -- The tumultuous years -- Saving the army -- Saving FDR -- Mission to Manila -- Waiting for the enemy -- Rat in the house -- When men must die -- Back to the wall -- I shall return -- Taking supreme command -- Green hell -- Doing Cartwheel -- One: stepping stones to victory -- Two: liberation -- Three: on to Manila -- Four: battleground -- Five: downfall -- Six: brief encounters -- Seven: being Sir Boss -- Eight: head winds -- Nine: war again -- Inchon and beyond -- One: reversal of fortune -- Two: end game -- Three: fading away.

"Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Arthur Herman delivers a powerhouse biography that peels back the layers of myth - both good and bad -and exposes the marrow of the man beneath."--Jacket

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