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Also by Evan Thomas:

Being Nixon, June 2015
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Ike's Bluff, October 2012
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Playbook 2012, December 2011
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Playbook 2012, November 2011
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The War Lovers, May 2010
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A Long Time Coming, January 2009
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Sea of Thunder, November 2006
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The Very Best Men, October 2006
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John Paul Jones, May 2004
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Robert Kennedy, September 2002
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The Wise Men, June 1997
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John Paul Jones
Evan Thomas

Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy

Simon & Schuster
May 2004
On Sale: May 4, 2004
400 pages
ISBN: 0743258045
EAN: 9780743258043
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography

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.

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