To read about Douglas MacArthur, to think about the life and achievements of the American general, is to be forced to two conclusions. First, that he really was a great man. And second, that the nation was lucky to survive him.
Perhaps it's a testament to the strength of America's republican traditions, at least through those mid-twentieth-century years in which MacArthur flourished, that we didn't collapse into constitutional crisis simply from the fact of his outsized existence. Or perhaps the nation's survival is a testament to MacArthur's own deeply American character and political virtues. The popular historian Arthur Herman certainly thinks so, and to prove his point, he's penned a 900-page biography, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior.
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