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This History of U.S. Naval Operations also played an indirect role in the history of television. One of Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, knew NBC's Robert Sarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps warfare in World War II.
Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. History As A Literary Art. Boston: Old South Association, 1946. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 15 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947 ...
The book was reviewed several times after being published. A reviewer in the Journal of International Affairs wrote that "the book is an excellent summation" of Morison's earlier History of United States Naval Operations in World War II [3] and one published in the Pacific Historical Review praised the book as a "coherent and tight volume, swift-paced and lively".
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall (Eliot) Morison (1857–1925). He was named for his maternal grandfather Samuel Eliot —a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut .
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). "Nevada". History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (series). Champaign: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07065-5. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1963). The Two-Ocean War; A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War ...
Book Designer: Peter Holm Printed in Canada on recycled paper. First printing, July 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolf, Naomi. The end of America : a letter of warning to a young patriot / Naomi Wolf. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-933392-79-0 1. Civil rights—United States. 2.
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, the book tells the story of the remarkable two-and-a-half-hour sea battle fought on October 25, 1944, in which Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague's task unit, known as "Taffy 3" (7th Fleet's Task Unit 77.4.3), of escort carriers and their "tin can" escorts rose to the impossible challenge of beating back an overwhelming ...