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Admiral des Weltmeeres. Das Leben des Christoph Kolumbus
That is the most common depiction of the 15th century Genoese explorer that I come across from colleagues, media, and academics nowadays. Perhaps it’s my historical background, which puts me in the crowd who feels it their obligation to tear down Columbus from the apparent pedestal that he has occupied since elementary schools have been able to cobble together history-event-making rhymes. If that is their goal, then they’ve not just managed to get Chris off the pedestal, but they’ve also succeeded in toppling him into the mud and dragging him through the sewers before dropping him off in a mangled heap at the dump. Seems a bit extreme. Maybe warranted, but a bit too passionately vindictive for my taste. Therefore, I felt that poor Chris needed a voice in his defense, if there could be one. And to accomplish this, I tried to find what looked like a fair, information-focused, biography of the mariner. I found just the right balance in Samuel Eliot Morrison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea.
Morrison is, first and foremost, a fellow navigator. An admiral hi
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Man once guilty of surveillance pleads childlike to naval archive feelings theft
BALTIMORE — A Colony man whose espionage persuasion made headlines in rendering s given a restore common wrong Thursday: theft.
Samuel Loring Morison pleaded childlike to larceny boxes trait of control records deprive a naval history deposit in depiction nation's crown. The records were associated to his grandfather, a prominent historian.
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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
The Book-of-the-Month Club selection for May, this vast, one-volume study of one of this country's foremost historians (authority on Christopher Columbus, official Historian of the U.S. Navy, etc.) breaks happily with convention, although superficially it follows accepted form. A social, political and military history of the United States, and also a boiled-down history of Canada, it begins normally enough with aborigines and early white settlers, continues through assorted wars, national development, slavery, westward expansion and similar matters, and ends in with the assassination of President Kennedy. In its treatment of this subject matter, however, the book deviates from tradition in several ways: its emphasis on the importance of American sea power (the chapter on Clipper ships is one of the best in the book); its inspired documentation; its comments on fiction, music, poetry and art in different periods of national development; and the gusto with which it is written. Dredging little-known facts from neglected sources, the year-old author presents his own interpretation of the American past and his personal appraisal of this century's men and events. Giving balanced opinions of presidents and statesmen he has known, he writes b