John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones
Author: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451603991

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.

Hero of the High Seas

Hero of the High Seas
Author: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780792255475

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.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1918
Genre: Education
ISBN: