Shawn’s Reviews > Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy > Status Update

Certainly thorough and comprehensive. I wish it had a glossary for all of the nautical terms, and a diagram of the types of ships. The anatomy of a boat. Another note, the battles are described good enough but I can't help but imagine a better writer putting it all together. Some stuff feels incomplete, or too much summarized. But altogether, this big book is solid. Just can't call it 'a masterpiece'.

Ouch, shots fired! America was profiting from war in Europe, and this guy Randolph, Virginian congressman John Randolph, a 'skilled debater', calls America out, saying that American interests in trade & commercialism is really just "this mushroom, this fungus of war." Whew--fungus of war. Damn.