No Substitute for Victory: Lessons in Strategy and Leadership from General Douglas Macarthur

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For those readers who want to learn more about MacArthur, we highly recommend a visit to the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial. It is a square block of downtown Norfolk, Virginia devoted to everything MacArthur.

For further reading, the three-volume biography, The Years of MacArthur by D. Clayton James (Professor Emeritus at Virginia Military Institute), is the definitive work. William Manchester's American Caesar is the best alternative for a lighter read in both length and content.

After reading a good biography of MacArthur, read his autobiography, Reminiscences. It is, like most memoirs, not an altogether objective version of the author's life, but there is no better way to get a sense of the cadence and rhythm of MacArthur's speech ...