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John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy. It has not always been so. When the Revolutionary War ended, Jones's celebrity vanished. In What Remains, Robert Hornick explores why Jones was forgotten, the subsequent recovery of his memory, and the much delayed commemoration of his achievement.

Produktbeschreibung
John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy. It has not always been so. When the Revolutionary War ended, Jones's celebrity vanished. In What Remains, Robert Hornick explores why Jones was forgotten, the subsequent recovery of his memory, and the much delayed commemoration of his achievement.
Autorenporträt
Robert Hornick, an independent scholar, is author of The Girls and Boys of Belchertown: A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).