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. John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Ruthless, indomitable, clever he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C.
He appears regularly on many TV and radio talk shows. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years as Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief.
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