Buckner F. Melton, Jr., Author Wiley $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-471-39209-5
Aaron Burr's contemporaries did not think very highly of him. Alexander Hamilton, who could not know how prescient he was, called the vice president "a dangerous man, and one not to be trusted with the reins of the government." John...
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Buckner F. Melton, Jr., Author Lyons $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-1-59228-978-3
The ripple of interest in the typhoon that struck the U.S. Third Fleet in December 1944, sinking three destroyers and drowning 800 sailors, swells onward in this absorbing naval adventure saga. Historian Melton (Aaron Burr
) paints a wider canvas...
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Buckner F. Melton, Jr., Author, Buck Melton, Author . Free Press $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3283-8
This coherent and absorbing study from Melton (The First Impeachment) is the first full-scale study of the "mutiny" aboard the U.S.S. Somers
in nearly a generation. The brig Somers
was on a training cruise in 1842, with more than 100...
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