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1 Control # ocn780480462^
3 Control # Id DLC^
5 Date 20121106111817.1^
8 Fixed Data 120423s2012 nyua b 001 0deng ^
10 LC Card ^a 2012015110^
20 ISBN ^a9781594204043 (hbk.)^
20 ISBN ^a1594204047 (hbk.)^
35 Local Ctrl # ^a(OCoLC)780480462^
40 Cat. Source ^aDLC^cDLC^dDLC^dTnLvILS^
42 Authen. Ctr. ^apcc^
43 Geog. Area ^an-us---^
50 LC Call 0 0 ^aE745^b.R53 2012^
82 Dewey Class 0 0 ^a355.0092/2^aB^223^
100 ME:Pers Name 1 ^aRicks, Thomas E.^
245 Title 1 4 ^aThe generals :^bAmerican military command from World War II to today /^cThomas E. Ricks.^
260 Imprint ^aNew York :^bPenguin Press,^c2012.^
300 Phys Descrpt ^a558 p. :^bill. ;^c25 cm.^
504 Note:Bibliog ^aIncludes bibliographical references and index.^
505 Note:Content 0 ^aPrologue. Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944 -- pt. 1. World War II. General George G. Marshall : the leader ; Dwight Eisenhower : how the Marshall system worked ; George Patton : the specialist ; Mark Clark : the man in the middle ; "Terrible Terry" Allen : conflict between Marshall and his protégés ; Eisenhower manages Montgomery ; Douglas MacArthur : the general as presidential aspirant ; William Simpson : the Marshall system and the new model American general -- pt. 2. The Korean War. William Dean and Douglas MacArthur : two generals self-destruct ; Army generals fail at Chosin ; O. P. Smith succeeds at Choisin ; Ridgway turns the war around ; MacArthur's last stand ; The organization man's Army^
505 Note:Content 8 ^apt. 3. The Vietnam War. Maxwell Taylor : architect of defeat ; William Westmoreland : the organization man in command ; William DePuy : World War II-style generalship in Vietnam ; The collapse of generalship in the 1960s ; Tet '68 : the end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war ; My Lai : General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation ; The end of a war, the end of an Army -- pt. 4. Interwar. DuPuy's great rebuilding ; "How to teach judgment" -- pt. 5 nd the hidden costs of rebuilding. Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war ; The ground war : Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks ; The post-Gulf War military ; Tommy R. Franks : two-time loser ; Ricardo Sanchez : over his head ; George Casey : trying but treading water ; David Petraeus : an outlier moves in, then leaves -- Epilogue. Restoring American military leadership.^
650 Subj:Topical 0 ^aGenerals^zUnited States^xHistory^y20th century.^
651 Subj:Geog. 0 ^aUnited States^xHistory, Military^y20th century^vCase studies.^
650 Subj:Topical 0 ^aCommand of troops^xHistory^y20th century^vCase studies.^
898 Tag 898 ^aAdult qadult^
898 Tag 898 ^aBook qbook^
898 Tag 898 ^aEnglish qEnglish^
898 Tag 898 ^aNonfiction qnonfiction^
898 Tag 898 ^aqBiography Biography^
910 Tag 910 ^aCARL0008637056^
981 Tag 981 ^aCHICAGO^c20130219^
998 Tag 998 4 ^aLDR81.0 20120822125941 ORDR ^bLDR83.0 20130220095443 INGM ^bLDR81.0 20121101142056 INGM ^bLDR81.0 20120822125941 ORDR^