The General vs. the President; MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition [stated], Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 437, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Prologue, Part One: Two Roads Up the Mountain, Part Two: Test of Nerve; Part Three: An Entirely New War; Part Four: The General vs. the President; and Part Five: Fade Away. Sources. Notes. Index. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In his first year after completing his doctorate, Brands worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas School of Law. The year following he taught at Vanderbilt University. In 1987 he took a position at Texas A&M University, where he remained for the next seventeen years. In 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was formerly the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Professor of Government and now holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. In addition to his works on US history, Brands has works on the economic development of the United States and biographies of key leaders in corporate America. His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. He has appeared in the documentaries The Presidents (2005), 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), America: The Story of Us (2010), The Men Who Built America (2012), The World Wars (2014), and The Eighties (2016). More