MacArthur and the American Century : A Reader

by Leary, William M.

• ISBN13: 9780803280205
• ISBN10: 0803280203
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

General Douglas MacArthur has been hailed as the greatest soldier in American history. While not everyone would agree with that assessment, there is no question that MacArthur played a prominent role in the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. A distinguished combat soldier during World War I and an innovative educator at West Point in the 1920s, MacArthur became the army's chief of staff during the Great Depression. He went abroad in the 1930s to prepare the Philippines for war. His stand against the Japanese following Pearl Harbor made him a national hero, and his subsequent campaign against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific only added to his reputation. The Korean War gave MacArthur a final opportunity to display his military skills. MacArthur and the American Centuryassembles for the first time a nuanced and full scrutiny of MacArthur's entire career. Essays by such experts as Stanley L. Falk and D. Clayton James accompany materials by Dwight D. Eisenhower and MacArthur himself, providing analysis and evaluation of the immense impact this dramatic figure had on war, peace, and the American imagination.

Author Biography

William M. Leary is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His books include We Shall Return! MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Maps	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Chronology	p. xxiii
Growth to Maturity
Let Us Remember	p. 3
Macarthur as West Point Superintendent	p. 10
Douglas Macarthur	p. 30
The Army and the Bonus Incident	p. 32
The Defense of the Philippines	p. 43
Douglas Macarthur and Manuel Quezon: A Note on an Imperial Bond	p. 52
An Exchange of Opinion	p. 65
World War II
The Lessons of History	p. 79
Douglas Macarthur and the Fall of the Philippines, 1941-1942	p. 83
Macarthur: An Australian Perspective	p. 109
The Army in the Southwest Pacific	p. 143
Douglas Macarthur and the 1944 New Guinea Offensive	p. 153
Macarthur's Lapses from an Envelopment Strategy in 1945	p. 173
Military Intelligence and Macarthur, 1941-1951: A Reappraisal	p. 180
Macarthur as Maritime Strategist	p. 210
A Commentary on Dr. Clark Reynolds's Paper "Macarthur as Maritime Strategist"	p. 228
Japan
The Administration of Japan	p. 235
The Late General Macarthur, Warts and All	p. 241
Success in Japan--Despite Some Human Foibles and Cultural Problems	p. 257
Macarthur's Japan: The View from Washington	p. 287
The Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952	p. 315
Korea
Old Soldiers Never Die	p. 337
Inchon: The General's Decision	p. 345
The Inchon Invasion	p. 352
Truman and Macarthur: The Wake Island Meeting	p. 357
The Macarthur Plan	p. 376
Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War	p. 384
New Light on the Korean War	p. 399
Assessments
Duty, Honor, Country	p. 415
The Macarthur I Know	p. 420
No Substitute for Virility: Douglas MacArthur, Gender, and the Culture of Militarism	p. 436
Douglas Macarthur	p. 466
A Unique General: MacArthur of the Pacific	p. 471
A Successful Postrevisionist Synthesis?	p. 477
Military Biography Without Military History	p. 482
Egotist in Uniform	p. 489
Bibliographical Essay	p. 497
Source Acknowledgments	p. 505
Index	p. 509
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