This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious struggle-fraught career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American navy and his eventual award of flag status. With compelling detail and remarkable insight, the dramatic narrative captures Jones's tenacity and fierce dedication and loyality to his men and country, despite ill-treatment and begrudged recognition from his superiors, and his incredible victories at sea. Written by the renowned naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, this book is widely recognized as the only authoritative, modern biography of John Paul Jones. Morison is the author of eleven books, including two Pulitzer Prize winners, on early American history and US naval history. James C.Bradford, a professor of American and naval history at Texas A & M University, is a well-known scholar of John Paul Jones. The editor of a series of books titled "Makers of the American Naval Tradition", he is the author of an essay on Jones, which appears in one of those books, "Command Under Sail".
- ISBN10 0870213237
- ISBN13 9780870213236
- Publish Date 1 November 1989 (first published 1 December 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 1996
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Naval Institute Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Language English