Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964 is a 1978 biography of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur by American historian William Manchester. [1]Manchester paints a sympathetic but balanced portrait of MacArthur, praising the general for what he calls his military genius, administrative skill, and personal bravery, while criticizing his vanity, paranoia, and tendency toward ...
William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) [2] was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. [3] He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. [1]
I Was an American Spy: Claire Phillips: Ann Dvorak: I'll See You in My Dreams: Gus Kahn: Danny Thomas: Jim Thorpe – All-American: Jim Thorpe: Burt Lancaster: The Lady and the Bandit: Dick Turpin: Louis Hayward: The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale: Anna Neagle: The Magic Box: William Friese-Greene: Robert Donat: The Man with a Cloak ...
Nigel Hamilton (born 16 February 1944) is a British-born biographer, academic, and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages.In the United States, he is known primarily for his best-selling [1] work on the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, which was made into an ABC miniseries.
Caesar, Life of a Colossus is a biography of Julius Caesar written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published in 2006 by Yale University Press. [1] [5] It outlines Caesar's life in the context of the many institutions with which he interacted: "Roman society, the politics of the senate, Gaul (ancient France)" as well as the army of that ancient republic.
The book is dedicated: "For all in whose hearts he still lives—a watchman of honor who never sleeps".[1]The book chronicles several days in late November 1963, from a small reception the Kennedys hosted in the White House on Wednesday, November 20, the evening before the visit to Dallas, Texas, through the flight to Texas, the motorcade, the assassination, the hospital, the airplane journey ...
In discussing Caesar's war against Pompey the Great, Suetonius quotes Caesar during a battle that he nearly lost, "That man [Pompey] does not know how to win a war." Suetonius describes an incident that would become one of the most memorable of the entire book. As a young man, Caesar was captured by pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.