Reviews for Peanut Butter and Jelly

The average rating for Peanut Butter and Jelly based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-14 00:00:00 Christopher Kiley American generals tend to come in two flavors: modest (Zachary Taylor, Grant, Sherman, Bradley) and flamboyant (Winfield Scott, McClellan, Patton, Schwarzkopf). No doubt about where Douglas MacArthur fits in! Perret's fine biography of one of America's most famous generals is an excellent addition to the corpus of writings on Mac's varied and fascinating career, and a useful counterpoint to William Manchester's somewhat worshipful "American Cesear." MacArthur was an incredibly brave and highly decorated combat leader in the First World War, and yet his reputation suffered both before and during the Second. His moment of true military genius was the Inchon landing in Korea in 1950, and yet, soon after, because he had discounted the Chinese threat and violated orders about speaking out against a grand strategy he disagreed with, he was sacked by Truman. All this and more makes for stimulating reading, and Perret here, as in his other fine history books, wields his pen deftly. Certainly worth the time it takes to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-03 00:00:00 Robert William Stein I have always been a fan of Douglas MacArthur and this book did a great job of showing everything he has done. Some remarkable parts of his life that I didn't even know came from this. One that stuck out was everything he went through at West Point. Even with this, he was able to overcome all of this and graduate at the top of his class. This book did a good job of explaining the thoughts and ideas of Douglas in each of the wars he served in. I'd recommend this to anyone who likes WW2 or great war generals as it explains what he did as a general and who he got his ideas from.