MacArthur and the American century : a reader
Evaluates the impact that General Douglas MacArthur has had on war, peace, and the American imagination.
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2001
Aufsatzsammlung
xxi, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780803229303, 9780803280205, 0803229305, 0803280203
44420468
Contents: 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; Index