The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1613747306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chaptal said An untold history that gracefully pulls the reader in. Finding grave sites of American historical figures, prominent and obscure, are a part of what makes me tick. What happened to Admiral John Paul Jones after he died in Paris is a story that Scott Martelle reveals in his book, The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body. "Martelle, the maker of magic with amazing subjects" according to Joan Marsan Murphine. I chose this rating because I came home from a Book signing featuring Scott Martelle and his latest The Admiral and the Ambassador clutched in my hands. I knew I was in for a good read, but I had no idea how good. An unlikely title with unlikely subject matter. Three hours after my arrival back . Needed to chart a straighter course anonymous Informative and well researched. It tends to wander at times as if the author needed to tell us everything he knew or had discovered. It would have been more compelling/ exciting if he had kept to the tighter kind of story-telling.Still i will recommend it for naval history buffs
As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones’s grave—and, in fact, the exact location of St. His body had, though, been preserved in a lead-lined coffin filled with alcohol; theoretically, if the coffin could be located, Jones could be returned to the United States for proper burial. This book, the only full-length account of the search for and discovery of John Paul Jones’s body, offers a fascinating look into the charismatic, real-life characters who populated the first century of the United States of America.. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792—was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his burial had passed away. The Admiral and the Ambassador details Porter’s long, unrelenting search for that coffin, first through scraps of archive material and written recollections of funeral attendees, and then beneath the rickety buildings that had been constructed over what he b
Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, directed a long, complicated effort to discover the forgotten final resting place in Paris of the legendary U.S. Publishers Weekly--March 3, 2014 Journalist Martelle (Detroit: A Biography) tells the fascinating "historical detective story" of how Gen. Navy hero John Paul Jones, who died there in 1792. Martelle's well-written and well-researched narrative focuses on Porter's complicated five-year quest to find Jones's burial site and the machinations required to get the body back home.