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Author: Evan Thomas Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451603991 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 420
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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: Joe Famularo Publisher: ISBN: 9781647465285 Category : Languages : en Pages : 566
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Are you Navigating the Life you Aspire to Live? Who is sailing your ship? Is it you or someone else? Is your Life Ship on course, drifting or sinking? If you're off course or struggling to stay afloat, how will you meet your Life Vision and Life Goals? How will you lead your family, team or organization? There's a way to get back on course! IOU Life Leadership is a foundational framework, based on timeless universal principles, for positive and effective intentional living. This book will help you to develop greater self awareness and reach peak performance. IOU Living provides you with a Life Map that gets you back on course. We will dive deep into the principles that make up IOU Life Leadership Inward Living - the principle of thinking and self-reflection Outward Living - the principle of interacting with others and the world Upward Living - the principle of receiving the Life Gifts of Peacefulness, Happiness, Healthiness, and Excellence, which I call your "PH2E." Through stories from a Great American Sailor, you will discover 12 Essential Life Anchors that will energize your Upward Life Living, propel your PH2E and create a Dynamic Positive Culture for yourself, your family, your team, or your organization. IOU LIFE LEADERSHIP You Owe it to Yourself and Others! You are the captain of your Life Ship so let's begin navigating your life journey today!
Author: Susan Cosentino Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1612515673 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded at the Battle of Tulagi. Peppered with the kind of vivid, authentic details that could only be provided by a participant, the book is the saga of a gallant fighting ship that earned a Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the Third Battle of Savo Island, where she took on a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer and was the last to leave the fray. Calhoun's gripping and colorful account tells what it was like to be there during those furiously fought, close-range engagements. When published in hardcover in 1993, the book was widely praised as a good read loaded with rich and interesting details.