Six Frigates The Epic History of the Founding of the Us Navy

Name: Six Frigates The Epic History of the Founding of the Us Navy
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ISBN: 9780393330328

ISBN-10: 039333032X

ISBN-13: 9780393330328

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Authors: Ian W. Toll

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"A fluent, intelligent history...give[s] the reader a feel for the human quirks and harsh demands of life at sea."New York Times Book Review Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The foundersparticularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adamsdebated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliff-hanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.18" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 1.430

Ian W. Toll is an independent naval historian, the author of Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 and Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. Six Frigates won broad critical acclaim and was selected for the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the William E. Colby Award, and New York Times "Editor's Choice" list. He lives in San Francisco.



Debts of Gratitude


Note on Language and Nautical Terminology



To Provide and Maintain



To the Shores of Tripoli



England Again


Epilogue


Chronology of Later Events: 1815-2005


Notes


Bibliography


Index