"The Indispensable Man"?

"Mostly, the Ungers' vision of Marshall is persuasive. Praise for the general has soared so high over the years that the reality is bound to lie closer to the ground. The book also offers a useful reminder that glorification of the World War II era may tell us more about the disappointments of our own times than about an increasingly remote past when—no ­surprise—American leaders stumbled and were sometimes saved from their errors by the scale of the American war machine and the endurance of their ­allies."


Mark Atwood Lawrence in The New York Times reviews George Marshall: A Biography, by Debi and Irwin Unger with Stanley Hirshson.