2010, ISBN: 9780691023434

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Westholme, 2010-05-18. Hardcover. New. 6x1x9. <br /><br/>The Life of the First Captain of the United States Navy <br /><br/>Finalist for the Rear Admiral Samuel … More...

Westholme, 2010-05-18. Hardcover. New. 6x1x9. <br /><br/>The Life of the First Captain of the United States Navy <br /><br/>Finalist for the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature<br /><br/><br /><br/>"Ashore as well as at sea, Tim McGrath paints an informative, engaging and highly entertaining portrait of this worthy but neglected hero of American independence. The author shows us a man who was a magnificent embodiment of common sense--and uncommon courage and dedication. That such a work is long overdue makes its achievement all the more pleasurable."--Wall Street Journal <br /><br/><br /><br/>"Combining sophisticated use of sources with a pleasing writing style, McGrath masterfully rescues a father of the U.S. Navy from unmerited eclipse."--Publishers Weekly<br /><br/> "A nearly indispensable addition to U.S. Navy collections."--Booklist<br /><br/>"McGrath employs exemplary narrative style in this work. . . . In John Barry, the author adroitly juxtaposes maritime history, narratives of naval combat, and early U.S. social history."--New England Quarterly<br /><br/><br /><br/>"McGrath is a compelling and lucid writer. He brings Barry to life, makes battles understandable, and provides the clearest description of Barry's 1778 capture of the British transport ships Mermaid and Kitty that this reviewer has seen."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<br /><br/><br /><br/>"A great read and an absorbing account of a drama-filled life."--Naval History<br /><br/><br /><br/>"Well researched, well written, and a pleasure to read, this book restores John Barry to the important place he once held as one of our nation's great heroes. It is a tale of high adventure and personal courage and you will not want to put it down." --JAMES L. NELSON, author of George Washington's Secret Navy<br /><br/><br /><br/>"Readers of this vivid biography will imagine they smell the ocean's salt air and the sulfurous fumes of gunpowder as they navigate these action-packed pages. Fans of Horatio Hornblower and Lucky Jack Aubrey will rejoice in discovering their real-life American counterpart."--GREGORY J. URWIN, author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island<br /><br/><br /><br/>The man regarded as "the Father of the American Navy" returns to the quarterdeck in John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail, the first comprehensive biography of this legendary officer in generations. Son of a hardscrabble Irish farmer from County Wexford, Barry was sent to sea as a child, arriving in Philadelphia during the restless decade before the American Revolution. Brave and ambitious, he ascended the ratlines to become a successful merchant captain at a young age, commanding the most prestigious ship in the colonies and recording the fastest known day of sail in the century.<br /><br/><br /><br/>Volunteering to fight for the Continental cause, Barry saw his star rise during the War for Independence. As captain of the Lexington, Raleigh, and Alliance, Barry faced down broadsides, mutinies, and even a fleet of icebergs. He captured the first enemy warship taken by a Continental vessel and fought the last battle of the American Revolution. His hard-won victory over two British warships simultaneously garnered him international notoriety, while his skill as a seafarer and cool temper established Barry as a worthy foe among British captains. Without a ship during the winter of 1776-77, the ever resourceful Barry lead a battery of naval artillery at the battle of Princeton. With peace came a historic voyage to China, where Barry helped open trade with that reclusive empire. In 1794, President Washington named Barry as the first commissioned officer in the new United States Navy. Given the title of commodore, Barry ended his career during America's naval war with France, teaching the ropes to a new generation of officers, most notably Stephen Decatur.<br /><br/><br /><br/>Drawn from primary source documents from around the world, John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath brings the story of this self-made American back to life in a major new biography.<br /><br/>, Westholme, 2010-05-18, 6, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xx, 347, [1] pages. Foreword by Mrs. Sadako Ogata. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Judith Ann Mayotte (born January 25, 1937) is an American humanitarian, author, theologian, producer, former Catholic religious sister, ethicist, and university professor. In 1976 earned a doctorate in theology at Marquette University. In 1982 she joined Turner Broadcasting as Senior Researcher and a producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award winning documentary series Portrait of America. In 1985 she won an Emmy for writing and producing the "Washington" segment of the series. It was during this time that Mayotte found herself drawn, inexplicably, she says, to refugee work. Mayotte applied for and received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to write a book about refugees. In 1989, at age 51, she embarked on two years of living alone in Eritrea, Sudan, Pakistan, Thailand, and Cambodia. Her book, Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees, was published in 1992. Faced with stagnation and total dependency, the refugees' lives have been shattered, yet their hope remains alive--as do their dreams of returning home. Why are there refugees? Who are they? What is their fate? Refugees from war and persecution - an estimated 18 million people - can be found on all the inhabitable continents. Most flee from poverty-stricken lands to other lands just as desperately poor. Judy Mayotte lived among refugee peoples: staying in their make-shift homes, sharing their food, running with them to escape shelling, listening to their stories. Her family became the "long-term" displaced. She tells their stories, and their countries' tortured histories, sharing their lives, and bringing home the immensity of their struggles. Disposable People? describes the geopolitics, the economics, and the social conflicts that propel people into flight from their homelands. Disposable People? drives home the simple point that the world community must be aware and involved in constructive responses to the "refugee problem." It is imperative not only in monetary terms - building peace is less costly by far than waging war - but in terms of our shared humanity as well., Orbis Books, 1992, 3, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. xii, 292 pages. Appendix. Index. Footnotes. A few ink marks and comments noted on the half-title and title pages only. This is one of Princeton's International History and Politics series. Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946)[1] is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923 (Columbia University Press, 1980), A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1991) and The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966-1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983-1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994-1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986-1987. In 2000 he received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize He maintains a website dedicated to Cold War research. This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and that of strategists and political scientists, the essays here present a fresh and unified view of how to explore international politics in the nuclear era. The book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of "making sense" of the nuclear age. Trachtenberg reevaluates the immediate causes of World War I, studies the impact of the shifting nuclear balance on American strategy in the early 1950s, examines the relationship between the nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European relations, and looks at the Berlin and the Cuban crises. He shows throughout that there are startling discoveries to be made about events that seem to have been thoroughly investigated., Princeton University Press, 1991, 2.5<

1991, ISBN: 0691023433

[EAN: 9780691023434], Used, good, [PU: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ], BERLIN CRISIS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BALANCE, MILITARY STRATEGY, NATO, CUBAN MISSILE BERNARD BRODIE, COERCION… More...

[EAN: 9780691023434], Used, good, [PU: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ], BERLIN CRISIS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BALANCE, MILITARY STRATEGY, NATO, CUBAN MISSILE BERNARD BRODIE, COERCION, DETERRENCE, LIMITED WAR, PREEMPTION, PREVENTIVE SAZONOV, STABILITY THEORY, STRATEGIC ALBERT WOHLSTETTER, xii, 292 pages. Appendix. Index. Footnotes. A few ink marks and comments noted on the half-title and title pages only. This is one of Princeton's International History and Politics series. Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946)[1] is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923 (Columbia University Press, 1980), A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1991) and The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966-1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983-1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994-1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986-1987. In 2000 he received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize He maintains a website dedicated to Cold War research. This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and that of strategists and political scientists, the essays here present a fresh and unified view of how to explore international politics in the nuclear era. The book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of "making sense" of the nuclear age. Trachtenberg reevaluates the immediate causes of World War I, studies the impact of the shifting nuclear balance on American strategy in the early 1950s, examines the relationship between the nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European relations, and looks at the Berlin and the Cuban crises. He shows throughout that there are startling discoveries to be made about events that seem to have been thoroughly investigated., Books<