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Best-selling historian recovering
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS ? Best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose has come home to his house in Bay St. Louis to recover from a head injury he suffered in a Nov. 7 fall.
Ambrose is sleeping more than usual and goes to physical therapy sessions at a nearby hospital, said his son, Hugh. It?s not clear when the 62-year-old author of books about World War II and Lewis and Clark will resume giving speeches and doing interviews.
Hugh Ambrose said Monday that his father was shaky on his feet after suffering a concussion and spending more than a week recovering in a hospital bed.
It leaves you a little scrambled,? Hugh Ambrose said. ?The therapy is a way for him to help himself, and a way for the doctors to assess his
progress.?
But he stressed his father is in good spirits, goes on walks and is still writing.
?Every day he gets a little stronger and a little better,? Hugh Ambrose said.
The accident happened after a hectic week for Ambrose that included an appearance at the White House to receive a 1998 National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton.
After eating dinner with friends in Madison, Wis., two days later, Ambrose stood up to take off his suit jacket, his son said. Then he fell, hitting his head on a marble floor.
Doctors don?t know what caused Ambrose to collapse, Hugh Ambrose said. Tests ruled out a stroke or an aneurism.
He said his father has received hundreds of letters and e-mail messages from well-wishers.
?We?re sending them down to him
and he?s reading them all, ? Hugh Ambrose said. ?It really does cheer him up.?
Ambrose is professor-emeritus at the University of New Orleans, where he was a founding director of the Eisenhower Center and founder of the National D-Day Museum.
Ambrose was also chief historical adviser for the Steven Spielberg movie ?Saving Private Ryan. ? He recently had two books on The New York Times paperback best-seller list: ?Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, ? and ?D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.?
His ?Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West? also has been on best-seller lists. Ambrose has written biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon.
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