Ian W. Toll

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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 tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and the narrative flair of Patrick O'Brian.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393066647
• Artikelnr.: 59590358

Autorenporträt

Ian W. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in New York.