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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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
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We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
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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.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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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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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.