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John Paul Jones : Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas...

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Personalize
No
Era
1700s
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Book Series
Historical
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Personalized
No
Features
Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Inscribed
No
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Vintage
Yes
ISBN
9780743258043
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743258045
ISBN-13
9780743258043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30241130

Product Key Features

Book Title
John Paul Jones : Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Military / Naval, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Evan Thomas
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
The Washington PostEvery sentence is written with grace and style....Thomas opens a window on the squalid, demeaning, and hazardous milieu of eighteenth-century mariners and provides unsurpassed descriptions of naval battles., Nathaniel Philbrick The New York Times Book Review A penetrating biography...an adventure story....Part George Patton, part Jesse James, Jones was, as it turns out, a perfect American hero., The Washington Post Every sentence is written with grace and style....Thomas opens a window on the squalid, demeaning, and hazardous milieu of eighteenth-century mariners and provides unsurpassed descriptions of naval battles., Chicago Sun-Times His stirring accounts of Jones's sea battles will delight those who loved Patrick O'Brian's novels about Capt. Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's tales of Horatio Hornblower., Chicago Sun-Times His stirring accounts of Jones's sea battles will delight thosewho loved Patrick O'Brian's novels about Capt. Jack Aubrey and C. S.Forester's tales of Horatio Hornblower., Chicago Sun-TimesHis stirring accounts of Jones's sea battles will delight thosewho loved Patrick O'Brian's novels about Capt. Jack Aubrey and C. S.Forester's tales of Horatio Hornblower., Nathaniel PhilbrickThe New York Times Book ReviewA penetrating biography...an adventure story....Part George Patton, part Jesse James, Jones was, as it turns out, a perfect American hero.
Dewey Decimal
973.3/5/092 B
Synopsis
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., 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.

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