Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Esek Hopkins: Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy

WILLIAM M. FOWLER, JR.

John Paul Jones: Honor and Professionalism

JAMES C. BRADFORD

Stephen Decatur: Heroic Ideal of the Young Navy

JOHN H. SCHROEDER

Oliver Hazard Perry: Savior of the Northwest

JOHN K. MAHON

Robert F. Stockton: Naval Officer and Reformer

HAROLD D. LANGLEY

Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Precursor of the Steam Navy

JOHN H. SCHROEDER

David Glasgow Farragut: The Union’s Nelson

WILLIAM N. STILL, JR.

Raphael Semmes: Confederate Raider

WARREN F. SPENCER

David Dixon Porter: Fighting Sailor

TAMARA MOSER MELIA SMITH

Stephen B. Luce: Intellectual Leader of the New Navy

JOHN B. HATTENDORF

Alfred Thayer Mahan: Navalist and Historian

ROBERT SEAGER II

George Dewey: Admiral of the Navy

VERNON L. WILLIAMS

William Sowden Sims: The Victory Ashore

DAVID F. TRASK

William A. Moffett: Steward of the Air Revolution

CLARK G. REYNOLDS

Ernest J. King: Commander of the Two-Ocean Navy

LLOYD J. GRAYBAR

Chester W. Nimitz: Victory in the Pacific

JOHN B. LUNDSTROM

William F. Halsey: “To Find a Fight”

JOHN F. WUKOVITS

Arleigh Burke: The Last CNO

DAVID ALAN ROSENBERG

Hyman G. Rickover: Technology and Naval Tradition

FRANCIS DUNCAN

Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.: Hero or Heretic?

THOMAS J. CUTLER

Contributors

Index