GREAT LIVES: MacArthur was the best - and worst - of American generals
By Porter Blakemore DOUGLAS MacArthur is one of the most famous American military officers of the first half of the 20th century. As a young brigadier general in 1918, he was poised for a distinguished future that held great promise. Yet his potential produced enigmatic success and failure in the career that followed. Today, while some historians consider him one of the great captains of history, others disparage his accomplishments. The truth falls somewhere in the middle. Born at the Little Rock Barracks in 1880, the son of a Civil War hero and future general, the young MacArthu...
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