Commodore Levy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the US Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy's life. Set against a broad panorama of US history, Commodore Levy describes the American Jewish community from 1790 to 1860, the beginnings of the US Navy and the great nautical traditions of the Age of Sail before its surrender to the age of steam.

Product details

• Authors: Irving Litvag, Irving/ Fetterman Litvag
• Assisted by: Bonny V Fetterman (Editor), Bonny V. Fetterman (Editor)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9780896728813
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-881-3
• No. of pages: 672
• Series: Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History (Texas T; Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History (Texas T
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature