My friend Christina Davis Pierce is an avid reader and a history buff, she loaned me this great biography and I’ve been pondering it for some time. It’s called Commander In Chief by Eric Larrabee, came out in the late 1980s and is really a series of chapters on men who were involved in WWII, from FDR on; Marshall, King, Arnold, Vandegrift, MacArthur, Nimitz, Eisenhower, Stilwell, and Lemay, with a giant prologue and equally long epilogue. It is truly filled with amazing information and assumes the reader has knowledge of this era in history. I absorb some of it every night, I think some of you will really like it. It is packed with info, some quite surprising.
Probably out there in paperback for like a dollar or something. Try it. It’s not dry reading at all, it is (dare I say it) spellbinding. Thanks, Christina.
– Steve Hoffman (http://www.stevehoffman.tv/)
Here’s a New York Times review from 1987.
