Stephen Ambrose's Death

The historian Stephen Ambrose died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American historian and author who wrote biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. His other popular historical works include D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994) and Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996).

With his first wife, Judith Dorlester, he had a daughter, Stephenie, and a son, Barry. Dorlester died in her late twenties, and Ambrose later married Moira Buckley, whose two sons and one daughter he adopted.

Stephen E. Ambrose, whose best-selling books made America’s aging World War II veterans hometown heros again, died early Sunday at a Bay St. Louis, Miss., hospital. Ambrose, a longtime smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in April.

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My first book was the book that changed my life.

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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.