Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy Vienna and so too is the

and so too is the nation’s collective memory

focusing on the three major battles at Cantigny

by David Fromkin

often contradicted by his next action or utterance

he climbs mountains in the Alps

Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy Vienna and so too is theDescription By Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Paperback Amid the growing tensions of WWI, Otis W. Leader a thirty five year old widower of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent left behind three children, his job, and his home in Oklahoma to enlist in the Army. Assigned to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, he was chosen to represent the "Ideal American Doughboy," and lived up to that title, earning honors like the Croix de