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OverviewGeneral 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 20th 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. This volume assembles a nuanced and full scrutiny of MacArthur's entire career. Essays by such experts as Stephen A. Ambrose, Stanley L. Falk, and D. Clayton James accompany materials by Dwight D. Eisenhower and MacArthur himself to analyze and evaluate the immense impact this dramatic figure had on war, peace, and the American imagination. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William M. LearyPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.967kg ISBN: 9780803229303ISBN 10: 0803229305 Pages: 538 Publication Date: 01 February 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction - William M. Leary Chronology Part 1: Growth to Maturity Let Us RememberDouglas MacArthur MacArthur as West Point Superintendent - Stephen A. Ambrose Douglas MacArthur - Dwight D. Eisenhower The Army and the Bonus Incident - John W. Killigrew The Defense of the Philippines Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur and Manuel Quezon: A Note on an Imperial Bond - Carol M. Petillo An Exchange of Opinion - Paul P. Rogers and Carol M. Petillo Part 2: World War II The Lessons of History - Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur and the Fall of the Philippines, 1941-1942 - Duncan Anderson MacArthur: An Australian Perspective - David Horner The Army in the Southwest Pacific - Stanley L. Falk Douglas MacArthur and the 1944 New Guinea Offensive - Stephen R. Taaffe MacArthur's Lapses from an Envelopment Strategy in 1945 - D. Clayton James Military Intelligence and MacArthur, 1941-1951: A Reappraisal - Edward J. Drea MacArthur as Maritime Strategist - Clark G. Reynolds A Commentary on Dr. Clark Reynolds's Paper MacArthur as Maritime Strategist - Gerald E. Wheeler Part 3: Japan The Administration of Japan Douglas MacArthur The Late General MacArthur, Warts and All - Faubion Bowers Success in Japan--Despite Some Human Foibles and Cultural Problems - Robert B. Textor MacArthur's Japan: The View from Washington - Michael Schaller The Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 - Ikuhiko Hata Part 4: Korea Old Soldiers Never Die Douglas MacArthur Inchon: The General's Decision - H. Pat Tomlinson The Inchon Invasion - Karl G. Larew Truman and MacArthur: The Wake Island Meeting - John Edward Wiltz The MacArthur Plan - Edgar O'Balance Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War - D. Clayton James New Light on the Korean War - Barton J. Bernstein Part 5: Assessments Duty, Honor, CountryDouglas MacArthur The MacArthur I Know - George C. Kenney No Substitute for Virility: Douglas MacArthur, Gender, and the Culture of Militarism - Laura A. Belmonte Douglas MacArthur - Norman Cousins A Unique General: MacArthur of the Pacific - Brian Loring Villa A Successful Postrevisionist Synthesis? - Charles M. Dobbs Military Biography without Military History - Russell F. Weigley Egotist in Uniform -Louis Morton Bibliographical Essay; Source Acknowledgments; IndexReviewsThis substantial book provides an excellent discussion about the career of a man who, as William M. Leary points notes, 'surely must be credited with playign a major role, for good or ill, in shaping the character of American impact on Asia'...This is a far superior collection to what often passes as 'A Reader' and is well worth library purchase. --History, October 2002 """This substantial book provides an excellent discussion about the career of a man who, as William M. Leary points notes, 'surely must be credited with playign a major role, for good or ill, in shaping the character of American impact on Asia'...This is a far superior collection to what often passes as 'A Reader' and is well worth library purchase.""--History, October 2002" Author InformationWilliam 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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