American Caesar

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American Caesar

Author	William Manchester
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Biography
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date	September 30, 1978
Pages	793
ISBN	0-09-136510-4

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 is a 1978 biography of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur by American historian William Manchester. It was made into a documentary series in 1983 hosted by John Huston.

Manchester paints a sympathetic but balanced portrait of MacArthur, praising the general for his military genius, administrative skill, and personal bravery, while criticizing his vanity, paranoia, and tendency toward insubordination. As the title suggests, Manchester's central thesis is that MacArthur was an analogue of Julius Caesar, a proposition he supports by noting their great intellect, brilliant strategic generalship, political ambition, magnanimity as conquerors, and shared tragic flaw of hubris.

External links

WW2DB: Book review on American Caesar
Foreign Affairs review by Gaddis Smith
Wiltz, John Edward (Oct 1979). "William Manchester's American Caesar: Some Observations". Military Affairs 43 (3). doi:10.2307/1986876.
Commentary Magazine review
American Caesar at the Internet Movie Database

William Manchester

Works

Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (1951)
The City of Anger (1953)
Shadow of the Monsoon (1956)
A Rockefeller Family Portrait: From John D. to Nelson (1959)
The Long Gainer (1961)
Portrait of a President (1964)
The Death of a President (1967)
The Arms of Krupp (1968)
The Glory and the Dream (1974)
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism (1976)
American Caesar (1978)
On Mencken (1980)
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (1980)
One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy (1983)
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 (1983)
Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All (1987)
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932–1940 (1988)
In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (1989)
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance — Portrait of an Age (1992)
No End Save Victory (2001)
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012, with co-author Paul Reid)

Douglas MacArthur

Career	Service summary In World War II Escape from the Philippines Wake Island Conference President Truman's relief

Family	Louise Cromwell Brooks (first wife) Jean MacArthur (second wife) Arthur MacArthur IV (son) Isabel Rosario Cooper (mistress) Arthur MacArthur, Jr. (father) Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (grandfather) Arthur MacArthur III (brother) Douglas MacArthur II (nephew)

Public image	MacArthur Memorial Appointment in Tokyo (film) American Caesar (biography) Namesakes

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