Manchester hits the nail on the head with this biography of Douglas MacArthur, and I strongly recommend it to any history buff - interesting, well-written, approachable but with a great level of research and detail, and at the same time not so long as to get bogged down.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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