First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Countrya World Power,

The path of America’s rise to global dominance has always attracted the at- tention of distinguished historians and political scientists, ranging from Henry Adams to Walter LaFeber to Stephen E. Ambrose. Warren Zimmermann, a thirty-three-year veteran of the Foreign Service, joins the fray with First Great Triumph, a provocative analysis of the “fathers of American imperialism” at the onset of the twentieth century. Zimmermann examines how President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Secretary of State John Hay, and Secretary of War Elihu Root engineered American imperial expan- sion in the decade from 1898 to 1908

George C. Marshall: Rubrics of Leadership

In recent years a veritable avalanche of monographs and manuscripts has ex- amined corporate and military leader- ship. Recognizing the need for a book about leaders of character, Stewart Husted selected as his model one of America’s most admired figures, General George C. Marshall. This work examines Marshall’s leadership and its impact on the world throughout his ca- reer as a military officer, Army chief of staff during World War II, secretary of state, and secretary of defense

Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC

In the heralded history of the U.S. Ma- rine Corps, Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller oc- cupies a unique position. Long revered as the greatest hero in the Corps, Puller is the only Marine to earn five Navy Crosses. His career spanned thirty-seven years, during which he mastered the en- tire spectrum of warfare, from chasing the guerrilla leader Augusto Sandino in the jungles of Nicaragua to commanding a Marine regiment in the bitter fighting near the Chosin reservoir. Most Marines are familiar with Burke Davis’s 1962 ac- count of Puller’s life, but fellow leather- neck Jon T. Hoffman has produced what is likely to become the definitive biogra- phy of this extraordinary officer