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Featured Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Featured Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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(1962)
“. . . Ambrose believes [that] Halleck often was only the fall guy for Mr. Lincoln . . . painstakingly documented . . .”
(1970)
“[The papers, edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Amrbose are] so attractively designed and printed, and so well edited, that they should [prove] to be pleasant and profitable reading for the nonspecialist . . .”
(1970)
“It is Mr. Ambrose’s special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic
people at its center.”
(1983)
“. . . the most complete and objective work yet on the general who became President.”
(1984)
“. . . the best book to date on its subject, in part because it is also the most comprehensive. . . . even as Mr. Ambrose argues incisively for Eisenhower’s greatness, he passes judgments on the President’s performance
that undermine those claims.”
(1985)
“. . . an illuminating account of [the seizure of the bridges across the Orne River in Normandy by British glider-borne troops on June 6, 1944], an operation as strategically important as any fought on D-Day.”
(1987)
“While this postrevisionist view of Mr. Nixon provides no revelations and is based on no special access to his subject, it is marked by a diligent use of sources . . .”
(1989)
“It is Mr. Ambrose’s achievement to immerse himself in Mr. Nixon’s life and keep his cool. . . . The result is a portrait that is all its subject is not: evenhanded and thoroughly reliable.”
(1991)
“[Ambrose] has fairly and steadily laid out much of the basic record. . . . Though this accretion of detail does not establish a definitive interpretation, its sheer massing has a repellent illuminating effect.”
(1992)
“. . . a harrowing story. . . . I am impressed by how well Mr. Ambrose has captured the true essence of a combat rifle company.”
(1994)
“[T]he descriptions of individual ordeals on the bloody beach of Omaha make this book outstanding.”
(1996)
“. . . a swiftly moving, full-dress treatment of the expedition . . . conveyed with passionate enthusiasm by Mr. Ambrose . . .”
(1997)
“These events have all been well documented, but in Ambrose’s capable hands, the bloody and dramatic battles fought in northwest Europe in 1944-45 come alive as never before.”
(February 24, 1991)
Ambrose responds to charges raised by James Bacque’s book “Other Losses” that Eisenhower as head of the American occupation of Germany in 1945, deliberately starved to death German prisoners of war
in staggering numbers.
(February 2, 1992)
In the wake of Oliver Stone’s “J.F.K.,” Ambrose considers the popularity of various Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.
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