Admiral Richard Wainwright and the United States Fleet
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. 26 cm, 266, illus., footnotes, index, rear board stained. Foreword by Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Richard Wainwright (1849-1926) was an officer in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. He was one of the group of capable naval officers who brought forward new and sounder ideas on how to organize and employ a U.S. Fleet, and was directly responsible for the establishment of such a fleet in 1902. This book contains much material on Wainwright's relationship with Theodore Roosevelt when Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and later when Roosevelt was President. Condition: good.
Keywords: U.S. Navy, Naval, Richard Wainwright, Spanish-Am War, William Wotherspoon, Brooklyn Navy Yard, George Dewey, Elting Morison, Theodore Roosevelt
[Book #52494]
Price: $100.00