Bibliograph

Frontline General, America's Most Controversial Hero

Type

Label

Frontline General, America's Most Controversial Hero

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frontline General

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Jules Archer History for Young Readers

Sub title

America's Most Controversial Hero

Summary

At twenty-six Douglas MacArthur was military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, and his courageous leadership of the Rainbow Division in World War I made him a general. At the same time, his reluctance to heed any authority but his own gained him a reputation of arrogance and insubordination that was to shadow his entire career. As MacArthur helped guide defeated Japan to democracy, it was remarked that he himself tolerated no democratic questioning of his commands. When he was summoned from Japan to take command of the desperately beleaguered forces in Korea, the conflict between duty and pride brought his career to a dramatic conclusion. With brilliant generalship he saved his army from defeat, only to be removed from his post when he refused to obey the president himself. Douglas MacArthur's deeds were of heroic proportion, but he is, and will continue to be, one of America's most controversial figures

Target audience

juvenile

Classification