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Includes MacArthur's most bright colored and inspiring estimates, including his Triumph Broadcast after Japan's surrender and his Farewell Address to Congress. "There is no substitute for success." - Douglas MacArthur A lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential characters, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Of all armed service men America produced during the 19th and 20th decades, it's hard to find one as important, successful and controversial as Basic Douglas MacArthur. The child of your Civil Warfare veteran, MacArthur rose to be the most instrumental commander in the Pacific Movie theater during World Warfare II. His renowned return to the Philippines in 1944 made good using one of the war's most well-known vows, and it was MacArthur who fittingly who oversaw the job and reconstruction of Japan following the war. Given his long and famous profession, MacArthur was the clear choice to lead the newly created United Nations' troops during the Korean Warfare, but his arguments over war strategy and plan eventually led to his controversial firing by Leader Harry Truman in 1951.
