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
affair truman foreign-affairs
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
done taught professors
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
constitution documents governing
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
powerful men broken
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.
editors want
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
slave
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
war winning progress
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.
war hero thinking
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.
fire-burning people building
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
easy admirable subjects
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.
cheating vote cheated
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
children opportunity men
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.
war winning knows
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...
writing long way
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.