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Commodore Levy: A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail: Modern Jewish History

Autor Irving Litvag Editat de Bonny V. Fetterman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 iun 2014
An American "Dreyfus Affair"
 
By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial and engaged in a duel, all in response to antisemitic taunts and harassment from his fellow officers. Yet he never lost his love of country or desire to serve in its navy. When the navy tried to boot him out, he took his case to the highest court and won.
            This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy’s life: running away from his Philadelphia home to serve as a cabin boy at age ten; his service during the War of 1812 aboard the Argus and internment at the notorious British prison at Dartmoor; his campaign for the abolition of flogging in the Navy; and his purchase and restoration of Monticello as a tribute to his personal hero, Thomas Jefferson. Set against a broad panorama of U.S. history, Commodore Levy describes the American Jewish community from 1790 to 1860, the beginnings of the U.S. Navy, and the great nautical traditions of the Age of Sail before its surrender to the age of steam.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780896728813
ISBN-10: 0896728811
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 61 mm
Greutate: 1.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Texas Tech University Press
Colecția Texas Tech University Press
Seria Modern Jewish History


Recenzii

What Uriah Levy achieved as a high-ranking Jewish officer in the United States Navy would have been remarkable if it had happened in 1945. The fact that it happened in the early 19th century is astounding -- and a testament to one ordinary man's extraordinary tenacity and courage. Commodore Levy achieves a kind of magic: this distant time and its people suddenly are alive, breathing beside us. The pages fly by, and with each page you feel a deepening sense of what it means, then and now, to live a life of integrity.
--Dara Horn, author of A Guide for the Perplexed

Commodore Uriah P. Levy was a larger-than-life figure who battled flogging in the navy, preserved Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, combated antisemitism, fought repeatedly for his honor, made a fortune, and late in life married his eighteen-year-old niece.  His life is tailor-made for an historical novel, and, after years of painstaking research, Irving Litvag has written it -- a one-of-a-kind portrait of an early American Jewish hero.
--Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Commodore Levy is a remarkable work of nautical fiction, a rousing story based on a real-life character: a great nineteenth century Jewish American naval officer, intelligent, skillful, and full of courage, but often harassed by his bigoted superiors because of his religion, who rises from a non-commissioned sailing master to the highest rank in the pre-Civil War U. S. Navy.
--Sanford Sternlicht, Commander USN-Ret., emeritus professor of English, Syracuse University

Notă biografică

Irving Litvag was a former news writer for the CBS Radio Network and public relations executive. A lifelong resident of St. Louis, he completed this novel shortly before his death in 2005.
 
Bonny V. Fetterman is an independent editor specializing in books of Jewish interest. She was the senior editor of Schocken Books for over fifteen years.