Penguin Books
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
Key Metrics
- Thomas E Ricks
- Penguin Books
- Paperback
- 9780143124092
- 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.3 inches
- 1.05 pounds
- History > Military - United States
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
An epic history of the decline of American military leadership--from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.
While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II--Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley--it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks's hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.
Author Bio
Thomas E. Ricks is the author of Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. He writes the "Best Defense" blog at Foreign Policy and is the military-history columnist at The New York Times Book Review.
Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008 and was on the staff of the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years before that. He reported on American military operations in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he is also the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, Churchill & Orwell, and the number-one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote First Principles while a visiting fellow in history at Bowdoin College.
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