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...Commander in the U. S. Navy, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, on leave from his post as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard, is doing for World War II what was done for World War I by Sir Julian Cobbett, whose work is a classic on the subject of sea warfare...
...naval historian is particularly fitting for Morison in view of his experience both as an historian and as a navigator. Besides his two double-volume histories of the United States, one done with Henry Steele Commager and his five-volume "Tercentennial History of Harvard University," the sometime professor of American history at Oxford has written "The Maritime History of Massachusetts" and his Pulitzer-prize winning "Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus" is the most popular book on the subject...
...Morison Rediscovers America...
Like Columbus himself, Morison has made four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior...
Twelve days before Pearl Harbor, the radio commentator Boake Carter called Morison a "fool" after Morison had laughed at him for approving Finland's stand in aiding the Nazis against Russia...