Volume 1, Number 8 · December 12, 1963
End as a Man
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939
by Forrest C. Pogue, with the assistance of Gordon Harrison
Viking, 421 pp., $7.50
War has become the great profession of the twentieth century. Yet there is no professional whom we know less well than the military man. Politicians, businessmen, intellectuals, gangsters, prostitutes, paupers—we have studied them all, interviewed them, classified them, exhausted them. But generals and admirals, who from time to time hold in their hands the power of life and death, remain blanks. If first in war, they tend to be last in peace and infrequently in the hearts of their countrymen.
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