Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution - Rilegato

Patton, Robert H.

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ISBN 10: 0375422846 ISBN 13: 9780375422843

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2008

Riassunto

Examines the decisive role of citizen privateers, legalized seamen who raided British trade ships around the Atlantic Ocean, in America's battle for independence from Britain, detailing their strategic, economic, and political significance, as well as the part these seafarers played in the slave trade. 30,000 first printing.

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“[Patton] has dug deep into Revolutionary War-era records and writes with verve...he has a great eye for ironic detail.”

–The Washington Post

“Wonderfully told...”

–The Hartford Courant

“The British had always accused us of being pirates and thieves. Robert Patton’s fascinating account of privateering during the American revolution nicely proves their point.”

–Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, Shrouds of Glory, Patriotic Fire


“In this deeply considered book, based on overlooked primary sources, Robert H. Patton illuminates the raucous, illicit origins of our American democracy. The privateers of the Revolution operated in a twilit world of idealism and greed, launching the new nation on the double edge that would thereafter define it. Many familiar names–the Browns of Providence, the Cabots and Derbys of Salem, the Binghams and Franklins of Philadelphia–appear here in unfamiliar, less admirable ways. With neither rancor nor illusions, Patriot Pirates reminds us again of the mystery and unpredictability of true history.”

  –Stephen Fox, author of Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama


“[Patriot Pirates] is a well-written examination of an obscure aspect of American military history.”

– Booklist

“An absorbing exhumation of an undersung subject that will be of particular interest to Revolution buffs.”

– Publishers Weekly

“An illuminating look at an underappreciated chapter of the Revolutionary War: the daring, faintly disreputable, privateer war on British maritime interests...a pleasing mixture of high-seas adventure and shrewd analysis.”

– Kirkus Reviews


"Having, as an Englishman, been brought up on Hornblower and Nelson, I was fascinated to read Robert Patton's Patriot Pirates and to discover what I never knew about the American Hornblowers--the privateers of the Revolutionary War and their extraordinary adventures. For all those who love history and the sea, this is soul-stirring stuff, as good as reading a Patrick O'Brian novel, except that every word is true."
--Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and Ike

L'autore:

\Robert H. Patton graduated from Brown University and Northwestern University. He is the author of The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family. Patton lives with his wife and family in Darien, Connecticut.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375422846
• ISBN 13: 9780375422843
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 291