{"product_id":"john-paul-jones-sailor-hero-father-of-the-american-navy","title":"John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, \"in harm's way.\" Evan Thomas's minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones's \u003ci\u003eBonhomme Richard\u003c\/i\u003e and the British man-of-war \u003ci\u003eSerapis\u003c\/i\u003e off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on Jones's correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution--John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson--Thomas's biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones's spirit was classically American.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944079392999,"sku":"9780743258043","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_4017190f-80fb-455f-9c15-8859c431c597.jpg?v=1775352061","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/john-paul-jones-sailor-hero-father-of-the-american-navy","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}