Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior By Arthur Herman

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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill 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. MacArthur’s life spans the emergence of the United States Army as a global fighting force. Its history is to a great degree his story. The son of a Civil War hero, he led American troops in three monumental conflicts—World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Born four years after Little Bighorn, he died just as American forces began deploying in Vietnam. Herman’s magisterial book spans the full arc of MacArthur’s journey, from his elevation to major general at thirty-eight through his tenure as superintendent of West Point, field marshal of the Philippines, supreme ruler of postwar Japan, and beyond. More than any previous biographer, Herman shows how MacArthur’s strategic vision helped shape several decades of U.S. foreign policy. Alone among his peers, he foresaw the shift away from Europe, becoming the prophet of America’s destiny in the Pacific Rim. Here, too, is a vivid portrait of a man whose grandiose vision of his own destiny won him enemies as well as acolytes. MacArthur was one of the first military heroes to cultivate his own public persona—the swashbuckling commander outfitted with Ray-Ban sunglasses, riding crop, and corncob pipe. Repeatedly spared from being killed in battle—his soldiers nicknamed him “Bullet Proof”—he had a strong sense of divine mission. “Mac” was a man possessed, in the words of one of his contemporaries, of a “supreme and almost mystical faith that he could not fail.” Yet when he did, it was on an epic scale. His willingness to defy both civilian and military authority was, Herman shows, a lifelong trait—and it would become his undoing. Tellingly, MacArthur once observed, “Sometimes it is the order one disobeys that makes one famous.” To capture the life of such an outsize figure in one volume is no small achievement. With Douglas MacArthur, Arthur Herman has set a new standard for untangling the legacy of this American legend.Praise for Douglas MacArthur“This is revisionist history at its best and, hopefully, will reopen a debate about the judgment of history and MacArthur’s place in history.”—New York Journal of Books“Unfailingly evocative . . . close to an epic . . . More than a biography, it is a tale of a time in the past almost impossible to contemplate today as having taken place, with MacArthur himself as a figure perhaps too remote to understand, but all the more important to encounter.”—The New Criterion“With Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, the prolific and talented historian Arthur Herman has delivered an expertly rendered, compulsively readable account that does full justice to MacArthur’s monumental achievements without slighting his equally monumental flaws.”—Commentary

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Only soldiers never die...they just fade away said General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) in his farewell appearance before Congress. MacArthur had been fired by President Truman for his desire to cross the Yalu River and challenge China during the Korean War. MacArthur was born on an army base in Little Rock Arkansas. His father was the famed Arthur MacArthur who led his Wisconsin troops up Lookout Mountain during the Chattanooga Campaign shouting "On Wisconsin." Douglas and his older brother grew up in military forts in the West resembling those pictured in John Ford' movies. He graduated first in his class at West Point in 1903 and was the most decorated soldier to serve in World War I in fierce fighting in France. He won countless medals and became the youngest brigadier general in the Amry. MacArthur courageously defended the Philippines during the terrible fall of Manila. In a daring escape he made it to Australia. MacArthur led the army in the victorious battle against Japan and was the presiding officer who saw the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in 1945. He had earlier served as Army Chief of Staff and in the early 1920's was the reforming Superintendent of West Point Point. His landing in Inchon during the Korean War was a success.MacArthur was a man of contradictions. He was vain and egotistical but a great fighting and commanding general. He was a mama's boy but was alos a man's man. He had mistresses and hjis first wife Louise Brooks was a shallow flapper. His second marriage to the much younger Jean Faircloth was loving and the couple produced his son Arthur. Arthur Herman writes like a novelist! His book bristles with insights about Mac. This is one of the best military biographies I have read in a long time.I recommend it highly1

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