Stephen Ambrose, the man who authored a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, has died, aged 66.
Ambrose once said that he was a historian who was “fascinated by leadership”.
A report in the New York Times says:
Stephen E. Ambrose, the military historian and biographer whose books recounting the combat feats of American soldiers and airmen fueled a national fascination with the generation that fought World War II, died yesterday at a hospital in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Mr. Ambrose, who lived in Bay St. Louis and Helena, Mont., was 66.
The cause was lung cancer, which was diagnosed last April, his son Barry said. [Read more…]