Bluejacket Books: John Paul Jones : A Sailor's Biography (Paperback)

from MrsLee

As a rule, sea adventures are one of my favorite genre, american history also, but I couldn't finish this book. I read up to the big battle with the famous, "I have not yet begun to fight." I didn't care for the author's assumptions and negativity. Besides, I fell asleep every time I opened it up.

from mbmackay

This is a great biography - well written and authoritative. But for me the most compelling reaction was to wonder at how bizarre it is for for the subject to be such a USN hero. He joined the navy on the run from killing one of his crew in the Caribbean and added "Jones" as an alias. He was in th...

from richardderus

The Book Report: Rear Admiral Morison, USNR, was also a professor of American History at Harvard back when that meant something. His reconsideration of the life of Scottish naval hero John Paul Jones did much to strip away false and misleading stories accreted around the American Revolution's mos...