CLEAR FOR ACTION

by Noel B. Gerson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 13, 1970

Full steam ahead right after Damn the Torpedoes (Christopher Martin's recent biography--p. 496), this is one of Gerson's unindividuated accounts of famous figures and David Glasgow Farragut lives again only in terms of what he did. A midshipman at the ""tender years"" of 9(apple), the boy was capable of standing on the deck for 40 hours of consecutive duty. His first marriage to Susan ended in her feared alcoholism, decline and death; his second to Virginia was happier if homeless in view of his career. Farragut left the Navy after 50 years when Virginia was dragooned by the Confederacy, waited for the Union command to come which sent him off in charge of the famous taking of New Orleans. He died a public idol, materially well recompensed. The book's rewards are less and it is functional only in that it takes Farragut out of drydock once again.

Pub Date: Nov. 13, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION