Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was a popular historiographer & biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He grew higher inside Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin and graduated from either Whitewater High School. He earned the Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ambrose served as a prof of history at several universities from either 1960 until his retirement in 1995, spending a bulk of his period at the University of New Orleans. At one of his ends, within 1970, he was driven from either his position at Kansas State University after heckling then-President Richard Nixon during a speech in campus. Early inside his career he was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue.

Ambrose was andy skinner of many bestselling books all about Globe War II, including D-Day, Citizen Soldiers and The Victors; Undaunted Courage, about Lewis and Clark; and Nothing Like It in the World, about a construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. He was a founder of the Eisenhower Center and President of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was military adviser on the film Saving Private Ryan and was an executive producer on the television mini-series that was based on his act, Band of Brothers.

Eisenhower chose Ambrose when his biographer after admiring his work in ''Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, which was according to his doctorial thesis. A ensuant Eisenhower life history were typically enthusiastic, however contained several criticisms of the previous commander around chief.

Ambrose too wrote the extremely regarded 3-volume life history of Richard Nixon, besides typically caring, however his Band of Brothers (1993) and D-Day (1994), about a shacks & fates of single soldiers in a Globe War II invasion catapulted him away from the ranks of academic history & into right-sellerdom.

Ambrose organized his entire personal into the kind of "history factory" & began turning out popular books of history rather The Wild Blue (2000). He attracted criticism, which his colleagues say was motivated by jealousy, for indiscriminate apply of sources. Within 2002, Ambrose was accused of plagiarizing many passages which he footnoted however did non enclose in the customary quotation marks. (source: New York Sun, Oct. Xiv, 2002, P. Deuce)

He offered this defense to the New York Times:

A heavy smoker for years, Stephen Ambrose died of lung cancer on October 13, 2002 and was interred in the Garden of Memory Cemetery, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

An unpublished novel will be published by Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers. Entitled This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'', it is a fictionalized account of 19-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Ambrose has appeared on and even been the feature of several documentaries — notably ABC's The Century, A&E's Biography and the acclaimed series The World at War. (Full filmography at [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024421/ IMDb]).

Bibliography
A partial list of books: Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (1967) The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Vols. 1-5 (1967) The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1970) General Ike: Abilene to Berlin (1973) Crazy Horse and Custer (1975): The epic clash of two great warriors at the Little Bighorn ''Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (1981) Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 (1983) Eisenhower: The President (1985) Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 (1987) ISBN 067152836X Pegasus Bridge (1988) ISBN 0671671561 Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 (1989) ISBN 0671528378 Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 (1990) ISBN 0671691880 Eisenhower: Soldier and President (1990) Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood (1992) Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (1992) D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994) ISBN 068480137X Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) ISBN 0684826976 Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beachs to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997) ISBN 0684848015 Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000) ISBN 0743203178 The Wild Blue : The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (2001) ISBN 0743203399 To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian'' (2002) ISBN 0743202759