The most brilliant officer ever to graduate from West Point, decorated thirteen times for bravery under fire, the youngest general in the A.E.F., youngest Chief of Staff in Army history, this was the man who was to become the architect of America's victory in the Pacific, the ruler of Japan, and the epic tactician of the Korean War.
Here, in page after page of remarkable pictures and a fascinating biography by one of the country's top reporters, is the soul-stirring story of Douglas MacArthur, the man who stood so tall and cast such a long shadow on the history of his times that he has become a living legend.