Alan Axelrod is the author of many books on leadership, management, history, military history, corporate history, career, general business, and more. After receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa in 1979, Axelrod taught early American literature and culture at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). He then entered scholarly publishing in 1982 as associate editor and scholar with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware), an institution specializing in the history and material culture of America prior to 1832. Axelrod was a featured speaker at the 2004 Conference on Excellence in Government (Washington, D.C.), at the Leadership Institute of Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina), and at the 2005 Annual Conference of the Goizueta School of Business, Emory University (Atlanta), and the 2014 annual conference of Ecopetrol (Bogota, Colombia).
About Miracle at Belleau Wood (Lyons Press, 2007): "Axelrod is one
of America's great military historians. He's done it this time with
riveting non-stop action that reads like the best of Hemingway's
frontline reports plus the Marine Corps novels of W. E. B. Griffin.
Axelrod pushes you right into the action, onto the battlefield, and
never lets up. You become a firsthand witness to one of the world's
great battles, proud and heart-pounding as the elite force, the
Devil Dogs, are born in a small forest outside Paris. This is one
book I wish I'd written!"
--Paul B. Farrell, JD. PhD, syndicated columnist for DowJones's
MarketWatch and former staff sergeant, USMC "Alan Axelrod has
perfectly captured the embodiment of U.S. Marines and their
unparalleled esprit de corps ... As a former Marine, I find
Axelrod's descriptions of the combat in that bloody battle for
which the Corps became legendary--and which is the foundation of
its mythic lore--compelling and gut-wrenching. Miracle at Belleau
Wood puts the reader in the front row, witness to the heroism and
ups and downs endured by the Marines as they defeated the Germans
at overwhelming odds. A must read!"
--Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman, USMCR (Ret.), best-selling author of From
Baghdad with Love "Axelrod brings us back vividly to the shocking
casualties of 'the war to end all wars, ' opening up fresh insights
into the nature of the fighting and the decisions that shaped a
generation."
--Bing West, correspondent for The Atlantic, award-winning author
of two books on the Iraq War, former Marine, and Assistant
Secretary of Defense In ''Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the
Modern U.S. Marine Corps," Alan Axelrod has demonstrated his
mastery at portraying battle at its most brutal and bloodiest. The
fight for Belleau Wood is like a bayonet in the belly every step of
the way. The distant mirror that Alan Axelrod shows us reflects the
fearful face of life and death in World War I.
--Paul Weishaupt, Marines: The Corps' Official Magazine,
October-December 2007 About Patton's Drive: The Making of America's
Greatest General (Lyons Press, 2009): "Like Patton at his best:
[Alan Axelrod's writing is] polished, precise, and
persuasive."--Kirkus Reviews
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