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GEORGE MARSHALL
Defender of the Republic
This is the life of America's most distinguished soldier-statesman, General George C. Marshall, who influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century.
Winston Churchill called George Marshall World War II's "organizer of victory." Harry Truman said he was "the greatest military man that this country ever produced." Today, in our era of failed leadership, few lives are more worth of examination than Marshall and his fifty years of a loyal service to his nation.
Even as a young officer, Marshall was heralded as a genius, a reputation that grew when in WWI he planned a battlefield maneuver that evaded the enemy and led to Germany's surrender. Between the wars, he helped modernize combat training, and re-staffed the U.S. Army's officer corps with the men who would lead in the next decades. But as WWII loomed, it was the role of Army chief of staff in which Marshall's intellect and backbone were put to the text, when his blind commitment to duty would run up against the realities of Washington politics. Long seen as a stoic, almost statuesque figure, he emerges in these pages as a man both remarkable and human thanks to newly discovered sources.
Set against the backdrop of four major conflicts - two world wars, Korea, and the Cold War - Marshall's education in military, diplomatic, and political power, replete with their nuances and ambiguities, runs parallel with America's emergence as a global superpower. The result is a defining account of one of our most consequential leaders.
David L. Roll is the author of The Hopkins Touch and the coauthor of Louis Johnson and the Arming of America (Indiana University Press, 2005), a biography of Harry Truman's defense secretary. A partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and founder of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a public interest organization that provides pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs around the world, he has given talks on World War II and Cold War topics at the 92nd Street Y, the National Press Club, the Harvard Club, the Eisenhower Institute, the Pritzger Military Library, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, among others.
Even as a young officer, Marshall was heralded as a genius, a reputation that grew when in WWI he planned a battlefield maneuver that evaded the enemy and led to Germany's surrender. Between the wars, he helped modernize combat training, and re-staffed the U.S. Army's officer corps with the men who would lead in the next decades. But as WWII loomed, it was the role of Army chief of staff in which Marshall's intellect and backbone were put to the text, when his blind commitment to duty would run up against the realities of Washington politics. Long seen as a stoic, almost statuesque figure, he emerges in these pages as a man both remarkable and human thanks to newly discovered sources.
Set against the backdrop of four major conflicts - two world wars, Korea, and the Cold War - Marshall's education in military, diplomatic, and political power, replete with their nuances and ambiguities, runs parallel with America's emergence as a global superpower. The result is a defining account of one of our most consequential leaders.
David L. Roll is the author of The Hopkins Touch and the coauthor of Louis Johnson and the Arming of America (Indiana University Press, 2005), a biography of Harry Truman's defense secretary. A partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and founder of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a public interest organization that provides pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs around the world, he has given talks on World War II and Cold War topics at the 92nd Street Y, the National Press Club, the Harvard Club, the Eisenhower Institute, the Pritzger Military Library, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, among others.
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