Geoffrey Perret, Author . Random $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-375-50363-4
Perret (Ulysses S. Grant, etc.) delivers a flawed biography of JFK in which the subject—trapped in the crosshairs of shoddy research and poor prose style—seems unable to come to life. Perret's machine-like, event-driven narrative...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author . Random $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-375-50738-0
Americans have grown so accustomed to presidents asserting and exercising extensive powers in that role that Perret's thesis may prove as surprising as it is accurate. Until "Lincoln's War," Perret (Ulysses S. Grant
) argues, there...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $27 (436p) ISBN 978-0-374-10217-3
Few presidents have taken on the title of commander-in-chief of the armed forces with such enthusiasm as George W. Bush, who has advanced a wartime executive power unfettered by judicial or legislative oversight on far-ranging topics like the Geneva
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Geoffrey Perret, Author Ballantine Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37924-5
Vivid portraits and interesting facts fill this engrossing chronicle of the creation and deployment of World War II's U.S. Army. BOMC and History Book Club selections in cloth. Photos. (Dec.)
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Geoffrey Perret, Author Random House (NY) $30 (549p) ISBN 978-0-679-40464-4
With verve and elan, Perret ( There's a War to Be Won ) presents the epic narrative of American air power in the Second World War. On one level, he chronicles the work of energetic, single-minded military men--Henry ``Hap'' Arnold, Carl Spaatz,...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author Random House (NY) $32.5 (30p) ISBN 978-0-679-42882-4
Perret (A Country Made by War) interprets Douglas MacArthur here as someone whose temperament was intellectual and who, like U.S. Grant, became a soldier by the constant exercise of willpower. In this context, MacArthur's vanity and authoritarianism
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Geoffrey Perret, Author Random House (NY) $35 (542p) ISBN 978-0-679-44766-5
Perret (Old Soldiers Never Die) regards Grant as the greatest soldier the U.S. has ever seen, and believes that his greatness has been obscured because of the lack of drama in his life. Unlike William Sherman, Grant did not suffer a nervous...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author Random House (NY) $35 (704p) ISBN 978-0-375-50046-6
Breaking no new ground in the way of facts or interpretation, Perret (Old Soldiers Never Die; Ulysses S. Grant) nevertheless provides a useful, generally efficient summary of Ike's long and multifaceted life--albeit one devoid of critical judgments...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author, Robert D. Loomis, Editor Random House (NY) $22.5 (629p) ISBN 978-0-394-55398-6
The militia of the 13 American colonies was scruffy, slack and disease-prone. Today, as the largest military power in history, the U.S. commands thousands of ever-ready nuclear missiles backed by satellite reconnaissance. In tracing America's...
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Geoffrey Perret, Author, Robert D. Loomis, Editor Random House (NY) $30 (623p) ISBN 978-0-394-57831-6
Startlingly, in World War II the U.S. Army lost not a single campaign--and only one major battle (Sidi Bou Zid in Tunisia)--out of more than 100 fought around the globe. Perret here describes how Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff,...
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