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Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Joseph F Callo and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Hero of the High Seas by : Michael L. Cooper
Download or read book Hero of the High Seas written by Michael L. Cooper and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Everybody Works But John Paul Jones by : Mame Warren
Download or read book Everybody Works But John Paul Jones written by Mame Warren and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Character of John Paul Jones, a Captain in the United States Navy by : John Henry Sherburne
Download or read book The Life and Character of John Paul Jones, a Captain in the United States Navy written by John Henry Sherburne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones by : Norma Jean Lutz
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Norma Jean Lutz and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones, Hero of the Seas by : Keith Brandt
Download or read book John Paul Jones, Hero of the Seas written by Keith Brandt and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones by : Armstrong Sperry
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Armstrong Sperry and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the many loyal officers who served on numerous ships under the command of John Paul Jones.
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard by : Jean Boudriot
Download or read book John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard written by Jean Boudriot and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ships of John Paul Jones by : William Gilkerson
Download or read book The Ships of John Paul Jones written by William Gilkerson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author :John Paul Jones Publisher :American Revolution Bicentennial Office Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :144 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution Presented to King Louis XVI of France by : John Paul Jones
Download or read book John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution Presented to King Louis XVI of France written by John Paul Jones and published by American Revolution Bicentennial Office Library of Congress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Tracie Egan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles John Paul Jones, who served during the Revolutionary War and is credited with founding the United States Navy.
Book Synopsis I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight by : Elaine Marie Alphin
Download or read book I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight written by Elaine Marie Alphin and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of John Paul Jones, who served in America's navy during the Revolutionary War and is remembered for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight."
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Michael Burgan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the naval leader who has been called the Father of the American Navy.
Book Synopsis I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight by : James Mackay
Download or read book I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight written by James Mackay and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography in over 30 years of John Paul Jones, America's greatest naval hero, by the author of William Wallace: Brave Heart. 12-page photo insert.