military campaigns of World War II and featuring the fruit of numerous interviews he and his assistants had with the officers and especially the enlisted men who had gone overseas. Ambrose gained fame as the author of a series of bestsellers, many of them dealing with the U.S. Both biographies were praised by historians and critics as thoughtful, readable and authoritative accounts of presidential lives that included new insights. He spent 20 years on his Eisenhower books and a decade on the Nixon volumes. Ambrose was the author of multiple-volume biographies of U.S. Ambrose, 66, a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Orleans who as a best-selling historian and biographer wrote more than 30 books that told stories of the American West and American statesmen and warriors to an admiring general public, died of lung cancer Oct.
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