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Stephen E. Ambrose : biography

January 10, 1836 – October 13, 2002

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was 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.

Beginning late in his life and continuing after his death, however, evidence and reports have continued to surface documenting longtime patterns of plagiarism, falsification, and inaccuracies in many of his published writings and other work. In response to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "out there stealing other people’s writings."

Works

Sole author

  • Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press (1962)
  • Upton and the Army, Louisiana State University Press (1964)
  • Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1966)
  • Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe, New York: W.W. Norton (1967)
  • The Supreme Commander: the War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, New York: Doubleday (1970)
  • Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors, New York: Doubleday (1975) ISBN 0-385-09666-6
  • Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment, New York: Doubleday (1981) ISBN 0-385-14493-8
  • Eisenhower Volume 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952, New York: Simon & Schuster (1983) ISBN 0-671-44069-1
  • Eisenhower Volume 2: The President, New York: Simon & Schuster (1984) ISBN 0-671-49901-7
  • Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944, New York: Simon & Schuster (1985) ISBN 0-671-52374-0
  • Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962, New York: Simon & Schuster (1987) ISBN 0-671-52836-X
  • Eisenhower: Soldier and President, New York: Simon & Schuster (1990) ISBN 0-671-70107-X
  • Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972, New York: Simon & Schuster (1990) ISBN 0-671-52837-8
  • Nixon: Ruin and recovery, 1973-1990, New York: Simon & Schuster (1991) ISBN 0-671-69188-0
  • Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest (1992) ISBN 0-671-76922-7
  • D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, New York, Simon & Schuster (1994) ISBN 0-671-88403-4
  • Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, New York: Simon & Schuster (1996) ISBN 0-684-81107-3
  • Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 – May 7, 1945, New York: Simon & Schuster (1997) ISBN 0-684-81525-7
  • Americans at War, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (1997) ISBN 1-57806-026-5
  • The Victors: Eisenhower and his Boys – The Men of World War II, New York: Simon & Schuster (1998) ISBN 0-684-85628-X
  • Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals, New York: Simon & Schuster (1999) ISBN 0-684-86718-4
  • Nothing Like it in the World: The Men who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, New York: Simon & Schuster (2000) ISBN 0-684-84609-8
  • The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001) ISBN 0-7432-0339-9
  • To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian, New York: Simon & Schuster (2002) ISBN 0-7432-0275-9
  • This Vast Land, New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003) ISBN 0-689-86448-5

With others

  • with Douglas Brinkley, , New York: Penguin Books (1997) ISBN 0-14-026831-6
  • with Sam Abell, Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, Washington DC: National Geographic Society, (1998, 2002) ISBN 0-7922-7084-3
  • with Douglas Brinkley, (1999) ISBN 9780062716118; 2010: ISBN 0061990280
  • with Douglas Brinkley, (2002), ISBN 0792269136