"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

10 January 2010

Ambrose



One of my favorite historians was born on this date in 1926. Stephen Ambrose was a master storyteller, you need only read one of his masterpieces to tell this. His work includes Band Of Brothers, Nothing Like it in the World: The Men who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, D-Day, and two that would go to a desert island with me , Crazy Horse and Custer and Undaunted Courage., the story of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mission to the Pacific.

Ambrose participated as a consultant in the Ken Burns documentary, Corps Of Discovery. I recommend it.

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