
John Paul Jones
Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
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Narrated by:
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Dan Cashman
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By:
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Evan Thomas
John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. 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. Jones' spirit was classically American. 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.
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Critic reviews
"Superlative....Both Jones and his latest biographer can justly be praised as masters of their respective crafts." (Publishers Weekly)
"Evan Thomas captures all the incongruities, vanities, blazing ambition, and phenomenal courage of his subject." (David McCullough, author of John Adams)
"With the skill appropriate to a polished journalist, Thomas chronicles the short, but glorious, life of a brilliant, but frustratingly difficult, man, who was the first American naval hero....This is a fine account of the life of an admirable, but deeply flawed, man." (Booklist)
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Very Interesting Read
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Very Good
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Alas, such is true, on some level or another, in all our lives, I'm afraid.
Still, it is a good, and important, "read", especially when balancing his life's thread by the actions of other important "players" during the "War of Independence."
Overall, I don't think you will be disappointed with this purchase.
Local "baern" does good.
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Poor recording quality
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very informative
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I Have Not Yet Begun to Praise
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A few good insights outweighed by poor editing
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Also, I listened to the book and it was greatly enriched by Dan Cashman’s reading!!! He brought Jones, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette’s voice to life!! Bravo!!
Just the book I wanted on John Paul Jones
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decent book
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