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(Ringle) While an undergraduate, he played football, was a member of Chi Psi fraternity, and was on the Union’s Speaker’s Bureau. He also gained a strong Marxist viewpoint, which he later abandoned in light of his historical studies and close association with Dwight Eisenhower. I couldn’t wait to get out of that godforsaken place.” His way out came in the form of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he gained his Bachelor’s degree and later his Ph.D. “All these Republicans who made over $10,000 a year ran the town, and my old man was one of them. “There was no taste, no culture” says Ambrose. The young Ambrose found it absolutely suffocating. Whitewater was the epitome of a small town, complete with picket fences and unlocked doors. As a boy, he grew up in the town of Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Louis, Mississippi, resident enjoys the well-earned rewards that his talent and insight have brought him.Īmbrose was born the second son of three of a US Navy doctor and a housewife. (Carlin 102) Today, as the author of more than nineteen books (see update), the Bay St. His career was jump-started when his first book caught the attention of the President of the United States. He found his escape, as well as his true calling, in college. As a young man, he experienced the same yearning to get out and see the world as do so many people of that age. Ambrose has had a very interesting and singular career. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian (2002).Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals (1999).The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany.Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938.Character Above All : Stephen Ambrose on Dwight D.