Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy -- Ian W. Toll, Paperback

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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy -- Ian W. Toll, PaperbackBefore the ink was dry on the U. S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates,

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As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning

powerful and intense

From characters you can learn from

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the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

"is one of the small books which is truly great: it has exercised on human thought an influence almost ludicrously disproportionate to its size

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