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This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power | 
 enlarge | Author: Kenneth J. Hagan
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 799760
Media: Paperback
Pages: 468
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0029134714
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780029134719
ASIN: 0029134714
Publication Date: August 21, 1992
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In this scholarly history of the United States Navy in peace and war, Kenneth Hagan narrates the entire span of the more than two centuries of naval tradition and command from the fledgling Continental Navy to the fate of a 600-ship navy. He covers the evolution of armaments, ship design, the Navy's mission, and the careers of some of the Navy's most distinguished figures. Hagan also argues persuasively that for the United States, as a continental power rather than an insular one, the Mahanian insistence on achieving command of the sea with line-of-battle ships and later aircraft carriers is part of a concept that is and has long been out of touch with the realities of the nation's strategic requirements. This work acts as an appraisal of the role of the United States Navy in the defence of its own and others freedoms.
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 A Message for Americans October 20, 2003
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
As its title suggests, this essay by Kenneth Hagan, Captain USNR and History Professor USNA, unfolds our nation's emerging navalism - 1776-1991 - as a metaphor for the military-industrial power still driving US policy. One of its targets, Reagan-era SECNAV John Lehman, described it as "...the best one-volume history of the US Navy yet written." Subtly presented betwween the lines of this rousing story is a message for any American who pays taxes or votes.
 a history of the U.S. Navy March 20, 2000
Kevin M Quigg (Carol Stream, Illinois United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
A good short review of the founding and history of the U. S. Navy. The main premise of the book is the transition of the Navy from a coastal patrol and merchant raiding fleet to one that then equaled and surpassed the British Navy. The previous reviewer talked about the financial aspect of being a global fleet. He must have read between the lines. This is certainly a good overview of the U. S. Navy.
Professionally cogent alternative to Big Ship Navy orthodoxy June 25, 1999
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
When John Lehman reviewed this book for the New York Times [where it made their list of the year's top books] he called it "...easily the best one-volume history of the U.S. Navy yet written." He may also have been adroitly slipping the punch of its critique on the extravagantly unnecessary armada which he--as Secretary of the Navy--built for Ronald Reagan's defense industry. From the "Prophet" Mahan [publicity flack for Teddy Roosevelt and his "Great White Fleet"] to the Naval Academy-sanctified priesthood past and present, this book is a persistently low key, scholarly confrontation of the dogmas which have converted the United States from the world's greatest creditor to the world's greatest debtor nation. The message between the lines deserves careful reading by every tax payer.
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