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.
No comments:
Post a Comment