John Paul Jones, Hero of the Seas

John Paul Jones, Hero of the Seas

Author: Keith Brandt

Publisher: Troll Communications

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Traces the early life of the Scottish sea captain who became a hero in the American Revolution and founded the U.S. Navy.


Hero of the High Seas

Hero of the High Seas

Author: Michael L. Cooper

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780792255475

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Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.


John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Author: Joseph F Callo

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1612510167

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Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature. This fresh look at America's first sea warrior avoids both the hero worship of the past and the recent, inaccurate deconstructionist views of John Paul Jones's astonishing life. The author goes beyond a narrow naval context to establish Jones as a key player in the American Revolution, something not done by previous biographers, and explains what drove him to his achievements. At the same time, Admiral Joseph Callo fully examines Jones's dramatic military achievements—including his improbable victory off Flamborough Head in the Continental ship Bonhomme Richard—but in the context of the times rather than as stand-alone events. The book also looks at some interesting but lesser-known aspects of Jones's naval career, including his relationships with such civilian leaders as Benjamin Franklin. How Jones handled those often-difficult dealings, Callo maintains, contributed to the nation's concept of civilian control of the military. Suggesting that Jones might well be the first U.S. apostle of sea power, the author also focuses on the fact that Jones was the first serving American naval officer who emphasized the role naval power would play in the rise of the United States as a global power. Another neglected aspect of Jones's career that gets attention and analysis is his brief tour in the Russian navy, a revealing chapter of his life that has been underreported in the two hundred years since Jones's death. Rather than looking at Jones in a rearview mirror, Callo illuminates how this unique naval hero is linked to the nation's present and future. As a result, he gives us a sea saga that tells much about our own lives and times.


John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Author: Evan Thomas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1451603991

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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.


Boy's Book of Sea Fights

Boy's Book of Sea Fights

Author: Chelsea Curtis Fraser

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-16

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781010393771

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Sea of Thunder

Sea of Thunder

Author: Evan Thomas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-06

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0743252225

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Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.


John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison

Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781557504104

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This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of flag status.


John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Author: Armstrong Sperry

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781402731853

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Examines the many loyal officers who served on numerous ships under the command of John Paul Jones.


John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Author: Bruce L. Brager

Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781931798846

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A young adult biography of American Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones


The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones

The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13:

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This is a biography of a man named John Paul Jones. He was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends among U.S political elites (including John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin) as well as enemies (who accused him of piracy), and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation that persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy" (a nickname he shares with John Barry and John Adams).