Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrosewas an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 January 1936
CityLovington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.