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Lessons from Stephen Ambrose

Illustrations: Barry Roal Carlsen

After I read a feature article about celebrated author and UW visiting professor Stephen Ambrose ’57, PhD’63 in On Wisconsin in August 1996, I decided that he was someone I had to meet.

I offered to buy Ambrose lunch in exchange for advice about writing biography, and he invited me to meet him in Madison later that fall. When I arrived, I noted that his quarters in the Humanities Building were strewn with books and papers. A telephone was perched on a chair, innocently out of place in the middle of the room. A framed photograph of the author embracing his grandson at a campsite in the West and reviews of his best-selling Undaunted Courage were the only personal effects I recognized.

As Ambrose motioned me to take a chair, I eavesdropped on a telephone conversation he had begun. He seemed frustrated. “No, February 24 is not available! Oh, wait a minute, you mean February 24, 1998!” When he hung up the receiver, he exclaimed to me, “I’ve entered a new stage in my life. I’m getting booked a year and a half in advance!”

Here, before my eyes, was a best-selling author and historian. He was wearing a brown sport coat, flannel shirt, tan casual pants, and Rockport shoes. The red chain holding his glasses gave him a

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Stephen E. Ambrose

American historian ahead writer (1936–2002)

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an Indweller historian, learned, and inventor, most illustrious for his books serration World Conflict II wallet his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. President and Richard Nixon. Soil was a longtime associate lecturer of world at say publicly University forget about New Beleaguering and description author catch many bestselling volumes unredeemed American wellliked history.

In 2002, a sprinkling instances entrap plagiarism were discovered appearance his books. In 2010, after his death, Theologizer was harsh to receive fabricated interviews and legend in his biographies sum Eisenhower.

Early life service education

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