Evan Thomas brings his skills as a biographer to this complex, protean figure whose life and rise are both thrilling as a tale of dauntless courage and revealing about the birth of a nation. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy." The renewed interest in the Founding Fathers reminds us of the great men who made this country, but John Paul Jones 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. Ruthless, indomitable, clever he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. Thomas turns toward a much earlier period of American history in his well-received John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy Paperback by Evan Thomas (Author) 271 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.94 Other new, used and collectible from 1.26 Paperback 13.49 Other new, used and collectible from 1. He is the author of nine books, including two New York Timesbestsellers. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. Evan Welling Thomas III23(born April 25, 1951) is an American journalist, historian, and author.
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