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Author | : Evan Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451603991 |
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The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Author | : Joseph F Callo |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612510167 |
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Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature. This fresh look at America's first sea warrior avoids both the hero worship of the past and the recent, inaccurate deconstructionist views of John Paul Jones's astonishing life. The author goes beyond a narrow naval context to establish Jones as a key player in the American Revolution, something not done by previous biographers, and explains what drove him to his achievements. At the same time, Admiral Joseph Callo fully examines Jones's dramatic military achievements—including his improbable victory off Flamborough Head in the Continental ship Bonhomme Richard—but in the context of the times rather than as stand-alone events. The book also looks at some interesting but lesser-known aspects of Jones's naval career, including his relationships with such civilian leaders as Benjamin Franklin. How Jones handled those often-difficult dealings, Callo maintains, contributed to the nation's concept of civilian control of the military. Suggesting that Jones might well be the first U.S. apostle of sea power, the author also focuses on the fact that Jones was the first serving American naval officer who emphasized the role naval power would play in the rise of the United States as a global power. Another neglected aspect of Jones's career that gets attention and analysis is his brief tour in the Russian navy, a revealing chapter of his life that has been underreported in the two hundred years since Jones's death. Rather than looking at Jones in a rearview mirror, Callo illuminates how this unique naval hero is linked to the nation's present and future. As a result, he gives us a sea saga that tells much about our own lives and times.
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Admirals |
ISBN | : 9781557504104 |
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This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of flag status.
Author | : Michael L. Cooper |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780792255475 |
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Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.
Author | : Jean Boudriot |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Keith Brandt |
Publisher | : Troll Communications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Admirals |
ISBN | : 9780893758509 |
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Traces and early life of the Scottish-born sea captain who, after killing a mutineer, sailed to America, where he became a hero of the Revolution and founded the United States Navy.
Author | : John Henry Sherburne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Armstrong Sperry |
Publisher | : Young Voyageur |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2016-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0760352305 |
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This illustrated edition of John Paul Jones' biography introduces young readers to this master sea captain, and father of the U.S. Navy.
Author | : William Gilkerson |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Admirals |
ISBN | : |
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A biography of John Paul Jones from his early days s a ship's boy, to his naval career and activities during the Revolutionary War.