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Duty, Honor, Country: The Life of Arthur MacArthur Jr.

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Arthur MacArthur Jr. began his military career as a mere boy fighting for the 23rd Wisconsin infantry regiment during the Civil War. He rose to become the twelfth man in the history of the United States Army to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, the highest rank in the Army up to that time. His famous son Douglas, conscious of the profound influence his father had upon his life, once said, “Of all the men I have known, my father was the one I most respected and admired.” This biography, based on extensive archival research, reveals the remarkable career of this great patriot and his contribution to American history.

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Duty, Honor, Country: The Life of Arthur MacArthur Jr. by A. Brackob

On September 15, 1906, Arthur MacArthur Jr. became the twelfth man in the history of the United States Army to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, the highest rank in the Army up to that time. This great honor, which marked the culmination of MacArthur’s brilliant military career, included him in the ranks of such outstanding American military leaders as George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman, all of whom had previously held this rank. This bespeaks of the importance of Arthur MacArthur as a figure in American history, yet invariably when the name MacArthur is mentioned today it is almost immediately associated with his son Douglas. Arthur MacArthur is, however, equally deserving of recognition as a great military leader.

This biography, based on extensive archival research, reveals the remarkable career of this great patriot and his contribution to American history. This is all the more important because, to fully understand the career of his famous son, Douglas, who had such a profound impact on the military history of the United States in the twentieth century, it is essential to study the life and career of Arthur MacArthur Jr who began his military career as a mere boy fighting for the 23rd Wisconsin infantry regiment during the Civil War. Douglas MacArthur was himself conscious of the profound influence his father had upon his life. Douglas once said, “Of all the men I have known, my father was the one I most respected and admired.”

A.K. Brackob has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois. He is the author of Scanderbeg: George Castriota and the Albanian Resistance to Islamic Expansion in Fifteenth Century Europe and Mircea the Old: Father of Wallachia, Grandfather of Dracula.

 

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