American Caesar: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964 By William Manchester

One of my main objections that I have with this book is that it doesn't present enough of a point of view. It is sort of like a bad research paper, without an opinion, it is simply an organized sheet of facts. Although I wouldn't call this book terrible or a failure, I would call it incomplete. It gives the feeling of reading an encyclopedia, but with more interesting details. It is understandable to have a weak opinion in an informational book, but no opinion at all is scarcely acceptable.

I would recommend this book to people who just want to read something because they're bored, because this book doesn’t really have any in-depth plot or characters. It’s not that it bore me it’s that it didn’t have any meaning. But if someone wanted a quick summer read or just wanted to distract themselves then this would be the

I wouldn’t recommend this book to the average reader. It is a bit hard to read because the author goes into so much depth that the reader could very often forget the main idea. It is a good, informative book but a bit drawn out.

This book, was never to my liking, I always wondered why Mrs.Silva always talked about this book. I was never interested in reading really long books, my mind always would drift off but this book had something about it that was connected with me!

This book was certainly one of the more difficult books I have ever read in any scenario ever. To expand upon, it was mostly due to the fact that I, at the time, was completely unfamiliar with the subject of politics. Thus leading into my first point, I did enjoy this book because I was able to learn new aspects of our world. Even more so, I was able to apply them to the real world in this upcoming presidential election. Of course with the good comes the bad, I was simply overwhelmed with information that the book did come off as confusing at many parts. Not to mention the excessive amounts of examples in history that each theme has occurred, did anger me a little bit.

The book to me was interesting. The author use make history sounds more exciting than the

Douglass MacArthur was born in 1880 at the Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas to his father Arthur MacArthur and his Mother Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur. His father Arthur MacArthur was a United States Army captain. Being born in a Barracks, Douglas MacArthur said that “it was here I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write—indeed, almost before I could walk or talk”. Being raised there was the first of many times Douglas MacArthur would ride and shoot a gun. In the year 1893, his family moved to San Antonio and at 13 years old, Douglas MacArthur attended West Texas military academy and there “he began to show academic promise” After he graduated from the Military Academy, MacArthur enrolled at West Point and in the year 1903 MacArthur graduated from West Point at the top of his class. As soon as he graduated from West Point, Douglass became a Junior Officer. Soon after, World War I began.

Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, on an Army base in Little Rock, Arkansas into a family with a strong military history. At the time of his birth his father, Arthur, was commander and had been honored for his service during the Civil War for the Union Army. MacArthur’s mother, Mary, had two brothers also fight in the Civil War for the South. As a young child, MacArthur occasionally was moving to several military posts. His family moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1893. which is where MacArthur began to show academic potential at the West Texas Military Academy. Douglas would later enrolled into West Point after high school, where he would graduate with honors.

Honestly when I started reading the book I was kind of bored with it maybe it’s because I hate reading but I’m trying to break out of that stage so as I continued to read it got very interesting especially in Early Awareness Chapter it started to make me think about all the things I was taught in life and how I never asked question I think I was too young to realize.

Overall, this was one of the most interesting books I have read in a very long time. Every

Douglas MacArthur was a United States general born in 1880 in Little Rocky, Arkansas and passing away in 1964 buried in his mother’s hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. He is known most notably for his defense of the Philippines during World War II although it ended in Japanese occupation of the islands. MacArthur was raised by a military family, devoted his life to the army in both world wars as well as the Korean War, and was loved immensely by the American public throughout the twentieth century. Although the end of the Korean War saw some troubles with the command of MacArthur due to the struggles with the opposition from North Korea, he eventually was forced to retire, but this did not take away from his strong influence around the world as well as powerful legacy that allowed him to become a household name.

With good must come bad, the main problem with this book is that it was written like a textbook it goes straight to the point giving factual information ruining the feel that a book can really give someone by sucking the reader into it. The

I have read tons books in my life. Unfortunately I was forced to read most of them. I never really liked reading just in general, But I will say that when I read The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, it really hit me.I do not know what it is but I just like the theme and the circumstances that the characters were in. So hopefully The Great Gatsby is the only book that has impacted my life.

Firstly, the book is very clear and to the point. This allows the reader to grasp her points and opinions easily, the author is an excellent writer, and that she has knowledge in the area being discussed. This can be seen very well in the introduction, where she states what the seven chapters in her book will be discussing. More importantly, she states which chapter she is going to discuss in the paragraph, and what it will

Like previously stated, I did enjoy the many things I came to learn while reading this book, although I don't believe that the author took into consideration the time it would take to read this whole book. I did however enjoy that the author related the book to his own life as can be seen in the first couple pages of Chapter 17, “Speedboat to Polynesia.” While I ultimately found the subject matter interesting, I found the reading to be