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	Stephen Ambrose
		Stephen Edward Ambrose, (January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002) was a popular historian and biographer of Dwight Eisenhower.
		Ambrose also wrote a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, also generally positive, but his Band of Brothers (1993) and D-Day (1994), about the lives and fates of individual soldiers in the World War II invasion catapulted him out of the ranks of academic history and into best-sellerdom.
		Stephen Ambrose died on October 13, 2002 and was interred in the Garden of Memory Cemetery[?], in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stephen_Ambrose.html (524 words)

	Conversation with Stephen Ambrose
		Stephen Ambrose has long had a major personal interest, as well as a historical one, in the story of Lewis and Clark.
		We have endured summer snowstorms terrible thunderstorms in canoes on the Missouri and Columbia rivers, soaking rains on the Lolo, and innumerable moments of exhilaration on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
		Stephen E. Ambrose is the former Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/ambrose_book_6-20.html (1186 words)

	Stephen Ambrose
		Stephen Ambrose charts the history of West Point from its origins in the Revolutionary War--when students attached to engineering and artillery regiments studied the rudiments of strategy, but mostly came and went as they pleased--to the academy's time of crisis during the Vietnam War.
		Ambrose's narrative centers on West Point's superintendents, the Army officers who emphasized both tradition and innovation over the years--men such as Sylvanus Thayer, who commanded from 1817 to 1833 and who introduced customs that are still observed today; and Douglas MacArthur, who joined personal flamboyance with a deep-seated commitment to martial, academic, and athletic excellence.
		Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life a man and a country struggling with issues as diverse as civil rights, atomic weapons, communism, and a new global role.
	www.owp.us /StephenAmbrose.asp (2262 words)

	Stephen Ambrose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Ambrose, at the 2001 premiere of Band of Brothers
		Ambrose was born in Decatur, Illinois and grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin and graduated from Whitewater High School.
		Stephen Ambrose died of lung cancer on October 13, 2002 and was interred in the Garden of Memory Cemetery, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Ambrose (1032 words)

	Amazon.ca: Americans At War: Books: Stephen Ambrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Stephen Ambrose has recently been exposed as the extremely poor historian he truly is with charges of plagiarism being leveled against several of his books.
		Ambrose starts the essay with an attack on another historian, Robert Utley, whom he accuses of being too laudatory of Custer's Civil War generalship in his book "Cavalier in Buckskin." Robert Utley is considered by many to be the dean of American Western history- a well-respected scholar and researcher.
		Ambrose's analysis of Custer's Civil War is just a reiteration of dated scholarship that owes its roots to a 1934 biography by Frederick Van de Water, which portrayed Custer as a very reckless commander.
	www.amazon.ca /Americans-At-War-Stephen-Ambrose/dp/0425165108 (1437 words)

	Character Above All: STEPHEN AMBROSE
		Stephen Ambrose wrote the essay on Dwight Eisenhower for the book Character Above All published earlier this year by Simon & Schuster.
		Ambrose was born in Whitewater, Wisconsin in 1936.
		Ambrose says, "Teaching and writing are one to me: in each case I am telling a story.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/character/bios/ambrose.html (291 words)

	BookPage Interview September 2000: Stephen Ambrose
		Stephen E. Ambrose's histories are as vivid as screenplays.
		First came the dreamers and surveyors, as Ambrose recounts, then the capitalists and their political allies, and finally the hordes of laborers essential to giving substance to the dream.
		Ambrose is equally admiring of the laborers who would accomplish the seemingly impossible one day and better it the next.
	www.bookpage.com /0009bp/stephen_ambrose.html (1250 words)

	Did Ambrose Write Wild Blue, Or Just Edit It? - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After Stephen Ambrose's comments to the Times were published on Jan. 11, he had little to say publicly until Jan. 31, when he defended himself briefly during a speech to a St. Louis audience.
		Ambrose, in his limited public comments on the issue, seems to want it both ways: He is "sorry" that he did not use quotation marks, but insists that because he footnoted the passages, he didn't really do anything all that wrong.
		Ambrose apparently does not plan to rebut his critics in greater detail; his son Hugh says that so far as he knows, his father is not at work on any sort of written apologia.
	www.forbes.com /home/2002/02/27/0227ambrose.html (2949 words)

	A Historian Chronicles America
		Ambrose already had distinguished himself for his many histories of World War II and even a book on former president Richard Nixon, but the transcontinental railroad project posed a special challenge.
		Ambrose's career as a historian also has prompted the National Geographic Society to identify him as one of seven newly appointed "Explorers in Residence." He shares this distinction with such luminaries as oceanographer Robert Ballard and anthropologist Jane Goodall, who are more associated with science and nature.
		Ambrose sees a connection with his own work, and says that there is still a place in the world for explorers.
	www.riverdeep.net /current/2000/09/091800_ambrose.jhtml (1053 words)

	MWP Writer News (Oct. 13, 2002): Historian Stephen Ambrose dies at 66
		Ambrose, who called himself a hero worshipper, said in a recent interview that his focus on World War II developed from working on his Eisenhower biography and his memory of GI’s returning home from World War II when he was 10 years old.
		Ambrose was born Jan. 10, 1936, a doctor’s son from Whitewater, Wisconsin.
		Ambrose spoke out against America’s involvement in the Vietnam war, yet he focused his research on presidents and the military at a time when such topics were increasingly regarded by his colleagues as old fashioned and conservative.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/news/2002/2002_1013ambroseobit.html (1104 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Stephen E. Ambrose
		Ambrose suggested in a recent interview that his focus on World War II developed from working on his Eisenhower biography and his memory of soldiers returning home from World War II when he was 10 years old.
		Stephen Ambrose was a renowned historian, biographer, and acclaimed author of more than 30 books.
		Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-ambrose-stephen.asp (557 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Band of Brothers: Books: Stephen E. Ambrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ambrose's expertise in carefully handling the material is borne out by the fact that he doesn't glorify the violence as the on-screen version sometimes does; he instead draws the reader into the world of 1942 war ravaged Europe and alongside adrenalin fuelled young men in a violent and incomprehensible environment.
		Ambrose is often criticised for his almost exclusive approach to the American contribution to the Second World War and his depiction in Band of Brothers that the U.S. engaged the enemy in Normandy almost single-handed.
		Ambrose also expands upon all sides involved in his more epic D-Day, but as a study of the effects of war upon a group of young men Band of Brothers forms an outstanding contribution to the canon of war history and is an entirely readable text, HBO's Spielberg/Hanks driven television series aside.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Band-Brothers-Stephen-E-Ambrose/dp/0743429907 (1989 words)

	Stephen Ambrose Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Stephen Ambrose was born in Lovington, Illinois, where his father was the town doctor.
		Ambrose briefly interrupted his career at New Orleans to accept an appointment at the University of Kansas, but the outspoken professor and his new employers gratefully parted company after Ambrose and his wife were criticized for heckling President Nixon during his visit to the Kansas campus.
		Ironically, one of Ambrose's most ambitious works in later years was a three-volume life of Nixon, in which the author found much to admire in the administration of a President he had deeply disliked at the time.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/amb0bio-1 (766 words)

	History News Network
		Indeed, Ambrose's debt to his predecessors leaves him open to charges of sloppy paraphrasing, as with this wanly cited echo of Dumas Malone: 'In a country of vast estates, without cities or public transportation of any kind, with plantation seats far apart, riding was not a matter of sport or diversion but of necessity.
		Ambrose claimed that the captain had to take a gun to the British coxswain to get him to land their boat: "By god, you’ll take this boat straight in." Elsby, citing the testimony of Bob Sales, the only member of the boat's crew to survive, wrote that the incident was fabricated.
		Ambrose's claim, often repeated, that he always corrects his mistakes was challenged by Randy Hils on February 11, 2002 in an article published by History News Network.
	hnn.us /articles/504.html (4285 words)

	"Nothing Like It in the World" by Stephen E. Ambrose - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Stephen E. Ambrose is a historian in the Whitmanian vein.
		And Ambrose tells a good story, describing the job of building America's grand iron highway as a nip-and-tuck race between the Central Pacific (CP) in the West and the Union Pacific (UP) in the East.
		The key characters in Ambrose's drama, however, are not those power brokers but, as his subtitle suggests, the tens of thousands of Chinese, Irish and Mormon laborers who graded the track, laid the ties and drove the spikes.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/09/05/ambrose/index.html (897 words)

	Why Stephen Ambrose's plagiarism matters. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Stephen Ambrose handled his first plagiarism scandal of the week with the graceful humility you'd expect from America's Uncle History.
		Ambrose's patriots can't fall back on the factory defense anymore: Two of the cases occurred when Ambrose was an obscure professor, before he became Stephen Ambrose Industries.
		Ambrose has done more than most to coat history with a saccharine fairytale of glory; the fact that he opportunistically and dishonestly stole from other writers to do it just makes that glory seem like a commodity that someone decided to artfully package and sell.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2060618 (2098 words)

	The Sins of Stephen E. Ambrose
		Ambrose may mean that the territory encompassed by today's California, Nevada and Utah became a part of the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed in 1848.
		Ambrose would have been more accurate if he had the limestone promontory, which was nearly surrounded by the saline brew, as being a quarter mile south of the track.
		Ambrose's description of the events of April 1869 regarding the status of tracklaying by the Central Pacific are the result of careless recording of the facts which only make it confusing to the reader.
	utahrails.net /utahrails/ambrose.php (9971 words)

	CNN.com - Historian Stephen Ambrose dies - Oct. 13, 2002
		Brinkley, who recently collaborated with Ambrose on the National Geographic book "The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation," said the writer was diagnosed with lung cancer in May and was unable to accompany him on a tour to promote the book because of his illness.
		Ambrose was a star football player at the University of Wisconsin and played in the Rose Bowl, Brinkley said.
		Ambrose founded the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, was the historical consultant for the 1998 Steven Spielberg film "Saving Private Ryan" and retired as a professor of history at the University of New Orleans in 1995.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/ambrose.death (535 words)

	Historian Steven Ambrose Dead at 66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Stephen E. Ambrose, one of a handful of historians who have become best-selling authors, died of lung cancer Sunday, October 13th in Bay St.
		Ambrose was an Explorer-in-Residence for the National Geographic Society.
		Ambrose is remembered by his friends as a man who lived his life to the fullest.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/10/1015_021015_ambrose.html (480 words)

	Stephen Ambrose, Mississippi historian and author
		Ambrose was born the second son of three of a US Navy doctor and a housewife.
		One of Stephen Ambrose's favorite stories is that of the expedition of Lewis and Clark and the trail it blazed to the West.
		Ambrose goes into meticulous detail in describing not only the journey which made the man so famous, but also Lewis's life prior to the voyage, and his tragic fall afterward.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Ambrose.html (1743 words)

	Featured Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
		Ambrose believes [that] Halleck often was only the fall guy for Mr.
		Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center."
		Ambrose responds to charges raised by James Bacque's book "Other Losses" that Eisenhower as head of the American occupation of Germany in 1945, deliberately starved to death German prisoners of war in staggering numbers.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/09/17/specials/ambrose.html (497 words)

	More Controversy For Stephen Ambrose - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ambrose in his statement said the words in question would be placed in quotations in future editions.
		Ambrose told the newspaper that his footnotes and acknowledgment section in Crazy Horse and Custer had made his debt clear to the late Jay Monaghan, author of the earlier work.
		For instance, here is Ambrose on page 76: "Men from the 3rd Battalion draped the body with the Stars and Stripes and hoisted it on top of a huge pile of stones that once had been a wall in the Saint Croix Church, a block from the cemetery.
	www.forbes.com /2002/01/09/0109ambrose.html (1312 words)

	Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours - Lewis and Clark Tours, D-Day Tours, Civil War Tours
		Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours specializes primarily in WWII itineraries.
		The Ambrose family spent vacations traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail on foot, canoe and horseback.
		In homage to Dr. Ambrose's passion for the War Between the States, we run the Civil War – Key to the Confederacy Tour, which focuses on the western battlefields and the importance of the Mississippi River to the war.
	www.stephenambrosetours.com (180 words)

	Stephen Ambrose, Author of Band of Brothers
		Stephen E. Ambrose was born in 1936 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the son of a small town doctor.
		In an interview with Atlantic Monthly magazine, Ambrose was asked what drew him to become a military historian, even though he had never fought in a war himself.
		He is a retired professor of history at the University of New Orleans, and is the founder and director emeritus of the Eisenhower Center in New Orleans.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Band-of-Brothers/ambrose.html (487 words)

	Stephen Ambrose
		Stephen Ambrose is the best selling author who served as historical consultant on Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" and wrote what many consider to be the definitive book on the events of D-Day: June 6, 1944.
		Ambrose is regarded as one of the leading historical authors of our time.
		Ambrose grew up in Wisconsin and earned his Bachelors Degree from the University of Wisconsin, his Masters from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
	www.casenet.com /people/stephenambrose.htm (982 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Such has been the case with Stephen Ambrose, America's greatest popularizer of history, whose works on the Lewis and Clark expedition and World War II have been adapted into hit documentaries, television programs and movies.
		I wrote a story Monday that quoted a bookseller who said in a month Ambrose's problems would be remembered only by journalists and historians who would have been bounced for the same offenses.
		Ambrose and I just can't seem to appreciate the enormity of his transgression.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-01-17-minzesheimer.htm (912 words)

	Stephen E. Ambrose Audio Books on Tape and CD
		Ambrose's passions ranged from people to places, politicians to battles, but he insisted, "what drives me is curiosity.
		Ambrose died Oct. 13, 2002, at age 66, of lung cancer.
		For the 50th anniversary, historian Ambrose drew on over 1,200 interviews with individuals from all levels and both sides of the battle to recreate the experiences of the people who were there.
	www.audioeditions.com /sf.cfm?themepageid=121 (656 words)

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