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    OVERRATED GENERAL

    Nov 21, 2023 2 minutes

    MACARTHUR RECONSIDERED General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander

    By James Ellman. 296 pp. Stackpole Books, 2023. $29.95

    GENERAL DOUGLAS MacArthur remains a fascinating and confounding figure. Just as he always seemed to occupy the limelight over the course of his long military career, so too he has attracted libraries full of coverage from generations of historians, biographers, and commentators. Nevertheless, the last word on this vainglorious, preternaturally pompous

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