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Brief Biography of Stephen Edward Ambrose Born:	January	10,	1936, Decatur, Illinois
B.S. University of Wisconsin 1957, with three letters in football
M.A. from L.S.U. 1958, under T. Harry Williams
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1963, under Wm. B. Hesseltine
Taught at U.N.O. from 1960 to 1964, then at John Hopkins University from 1964 to 1970, followed by a year at the Naval War College as the Ernest J. King Professor, a year at Kansas State University as Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of War and Peace, and then a permanent return to the University of New Orleans as the Alumni Distinguished Professor of History.
1981-82 George Washington Ball Professor of American History, University College, Dublin.
1986	Fall	semester,	Visiting Professor, University of
California, Berkeley.
Books include:
Halleek; Lincoln's Chief of Staff (1962)
Upton and the Army (1964)
Duty. Honor. Country; a History of West Point (1966; translated into Spanish in 1968)
The Supreme Commander (1970; a British edition in 1971)
Rise to Globalism; American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (1988, now in its sixth revision and 29th printing, translated into Norwegian and Romanian)
Crazy Horse and Custer; the Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (1975), British edition 1976, Italian translation 1976, German translation 1976)
Eisenhower; soldier. General of the Army. President Elect (1983, British edition 1983, French translation 1987; winner of the Freedom Foundation's National Book Award; book of the Month Club choice)
Eisenhower; the President (1984, British edition 1984, French translation 1987, Book of the Month Club alternate)
Pegasus Bridge; June 6.	1944	(1985, British edition 1984, French
translation 1987)
Nixon; The Education of a Politician (1987, British edition 1987; Book of the Month Club alternate)


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