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1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Lang. |
| Summary |
Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the young republic. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce from the vicious depredations of the Barbary pirates, or would it drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? How large a navy would suffice? The founders -- particularly Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Adams -- debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. In 1794, President Washington signed legislation authorizing the construction of six heavy frigates. The unique combination of power, speed and tactical versatility -- smaller than a battleship and larger than a sloop -- that all navies sent on their most daring missions. It was the first great appropriation of federal money and the first demonstration of the power of the new central government, calling for the creation of entirely new domestic industries, and the extraction of natural resources from the backwoods of Maine to the uninhabited coastal islands of Georgia. From the complicated politics of the initial decision, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. In the words of Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere "raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States. Navy -- History -- 18th century.
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United States. Navy -- History -- 19th century.
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Frigates -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Frigates -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- Naval operations.
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United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Naval operations.
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United States -- History, Naval -- 18th century.
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United States -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Lang, Stephen.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743565295 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0743565290 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11639661 |
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