![]() Manchester lived the story he wrote about. ![]() Yet American Caesar comes across as personal and honest as Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead or Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed at Peleliu. Manchester’s name generally does not come up when discussing the New Journalism of his era the willingness to include ones’ self in a story, to “novelize” the truth like Wolfe, or like Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese, and William Safire, among many others. Manchester’s fluidity of style and attention to detail, the accuracy of his research, and willingness to weigh history without partiality or prejudice, are as good as any writer ever, from Ernest Hemingway to Tom Wolfe. Perhaps this was why Rowman felt the need for a re-publishing, to make it as pristine as a book of this magnitude deserves to be. In reading Manchester’s biography of MacArthur I noticed the occasional spelling or grammatical error. Finally I heeded the clarion call and read it. Anybody who knew anything knew this was considered one of the great works of all time, a magnum opus on par with Edward Gibbons’ timeless The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. My publisher told me at some point Rowman was re-publishing William Manchester’s classic on MacArthur. ![]() ![]() For a period of years between 20 I published many books with Rowman & Littlefield, a highly respected old house. ![]()
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