![]() When I asked a professional military historian-a man with direct access to Defense Department archives-if there was any book that he could recommend, he came back with a slight shrug.īut now the curious reader may choose from a freshet of writing on the subject. ![]() Henry Adams, in his discussion of our third president, had some boyhood reminiscences of the widespread hero-worship of naval officer Stephen Decatur, and other fragments and shards showed up in other quarries, but a sound general history of the subject was hard to come by. When I first began to plan my short biography of Thomas Jefferson, I found it difficult to research the chapter concerning the so-called Barbary Wars: an event or series of events that had seemingly receded over the lost horizon of American history. ![]()
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