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UNDAUNTED COURAGE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2002 THE TIMES-PICAYUNE ? E-3
Stephen Ambrose with President Dwight Eisenhower in 1979; Ambrose?s book, ?Hal-leck: Lincoln?s Chief of Staff,? moved Eisenhower to select Ambrose as his biographer.
STAFF FILE PHOTO BY DARLENE OLIVO
Stephen Ambrose, right, became a Hollywood player when Steven Spielberg, left, was inspired by his work and hired him as an adviser for ?Saving Private Ryan,? starring Tom Hanks, center.
STAFF FILE PHOTO BY G. ANDREW BOYD
Historian Stephen Ambrose, left, thanks former President George Bush for attending the dedication of the Pacific Wing Friday, Dec. 7,2001, on the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Dr. Stephen Ambrose, right, meets with U.S.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, left, and former U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, center, at the D-Day Museum earlier this year.
Historian, author, professor, star
STAFF FILE PHOTO BY G. ANDREW BOYD
In 1984, while working on his multi-volume biography of Richard Nixon, Ambrose also was teaching history at the University of New Orleans.
STAFF FILE PHOTO BY STEVEN FORSTER
Ambrose and wife Moira have been inseparable over the years. They danced together at the USO dance at the Marriott Hotel for the opening of the Pacific Wing of the
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Ambrose tracked the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition in his bestseller, 'Undaunted Courage,? and often returned to Lewis and Clark?s old haunts. Here he straddles a stream at the headwaters of the Missouri
Major works by Stephen Ambrose
?To America: Personal Reflections of a Historian? (forthcoming, November 2002)
?The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today? (with Douglas Brinkley)
?The Wild Blue:
The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany?
?Nothing Like It in the World:
The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869?
?Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals?
?The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II? ?Citizen Solders: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7,1944-May 7,1945? ?Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West?
?June 6,1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II?
?Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler?s Eagles? Nest?
?Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990?
?Eisenhower: Soldier and President?
?Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972?
?Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962? ?Pegasus Bridge: June 6,1944?
?Eisenhower: The President?
?Elsenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952?
?The Supreme Commander:
The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
?Crazy Horse and Custer.
The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors?
?Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938?
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