{ CONTENTS]; Illustrations; Preface; Ackowledgments; Shapers of the New Navy; Stephen B. Luce: Intellectual Leader of the New Navy; Alfred Thayer Mahan: Christian Expansionist, Navalist, and Historian; Robley D. Evans: Master of Pugnacity; French Ensor Chadwick: Reformer, Historian, and Outcast; Bradley Allen Fiske: Inventor and Reformer in Uniform; Builders of the New Empire; Willian T. Sampson: Progressive Technologist as Naval Commander; Winfield Scott Schley: the Confident Commander; George Dewey: Admiral of the Navy; A Navy Second to None.
Henry T. Mayo: Last of the Independent Naval DiplomatsWilliam Sowden Sims: the Victory Ashore; William Shepherd Benson: Naval General Staff American Style; Mark Lambert Bristol: Naval Diplomat Extraordinary of the Battleship Age; William A. Moffett: Steward of the Air Revlution; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.
Summary
This collection of essays examines the lives of thirteen naval officers whose careers had lasting effects on the evolution of American naval traditions.
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