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\nSEPTEMBER SELECTIOJohn Paul Jonesby SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON  \nEDITORIAL BOARDJohn Mason Brown  ·  Basil DavenportClifton Fadiman·Gilbert Highet·John P.Marquand  \nBook-of-the-Month Club Selections represent the unanimous choice of this Board  \n# A Sailor's Biography\n\n“The myth becomes a man,the legend flesh.”A stirringbiography of the young Republics first great naval hero,whose career was“filled with drama—love affairs,displaysof gallantry,fights and scandals.\"Written by the distin-guished Pulitzer Prize winner who is also America's fore-most naval historian.  \nREPORT BY John Mason Brown  \nIN CATHERINE THE GREAT's Russia he was known asKontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones.In Scotland,wherehe was born in a gardener's cottage in 1747,he was  \nchristened and brought up as John Paul.When he landed in Virginia in 1774he was John Jones,having wisely changed his name after killing a sailor inself-defense in Tobago the year before.It was as John Paul Jones that he wascommissioned in the Continental Navy in December,1775,and that he roseto a fame in the annals of the United States Navy similar to that of Lord Nelsonin Britain's Royal Navy.Well known to Americans and the world as he is,he will be the better known and the better understood because of Samuel EliotMorison's stirring new biography.  \nProfessor Morison is the ideal biographer of Jones.He is quite a sailorman  \nLEFT:The battle between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard,\"anaval combat the like of which has never been fought before orsince....The better man,in command of the worse ship,won.”ON THE FRONT COVER:John Paul Jones by J.M.Moreau le jeune.  \nhimself.having retired from the Naval Reservein 1951 as a rear admiral,a rank in the U.S.N.coveted but never attained by Jones.At sea orin his study Morison is a master of his craft.Aseveryone must know who has read his MaritineHistory of Massachusetts,his Admiral of theOcean Sea(Columbus),or any of the manyvolumes of his History of United States NavalOperations in World War II,he is a lusty,saltyYankee,tough-minded and eloquent,who writesas colorfully of people as of events.He has atonce a sense of scene and of character,a dryhumor,a fine scholar's scorn for inaccuracy,and a passionate love of ships and the sea.  \nAs he writes of Jones,the myth becomes aman,the legend flesh,and Jones's victories andstruggles acquire a graphic immediacy.Morisoncovers vividly the many aspects and ever-  \nA satirical print showing Catherine the Greatreplacing Jones in her Hall of Fame.Saidshe,\"I have no more to say to Paul Jones.Tellhim to go and mind his business in America.\"  \nchanging patterns of Jones's career—his growing-up by the Solway Firth;hisapprenticeship at sea;his swashbuckling days on British ships in theWest Indies;his enlistment in the Continental Navy during the Revolution;his spectacular seizures of British ships;his forays in Scotland and Ireland;his sharp eyes for “prizes”afloat and females ashore;the immortal triumph ofthe Bonhomme Richard over the Serapis;his hero's stay in Paris with Franklinas his patron,when Louis XVI made him a Chevalier of France;his unhappy  \nexperiences in Catherine the Great's navy,fighting the Turksin the Black Sea;the false charge brought against him ofraping a 10-year-old girl in St.Petersburg in 1789;his returnto a Paris tempest-tossed by the Revolution;and his death at  \n45,a broken and almost ignored man.  \nMorison refers to Jones two or three times as \"our hero.\"Do not be frightened away by this or misled into thinking thatit in any way characterizes Morison's mind or approach.Theadmiral-professor is neither a sentimentalist nor a worshiper.He sees even a hero whole and is no less aware of John Paul  \nA bust of Jones by the French sculptor Houdon.Jones gave copieof it to \"prominent Americans who had been or might be usefuto him.\"This particular copy belonged to Thomas Jefferson  \nJones's 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