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VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC (407 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...conflicts have made allies of the enemies of '45, and names like Okinawa and Iwo Jima already begin to seem almost as far away and long ago as Chickamauga and Antietam. It takes the death of the world's most powerful warship to bring out Samuel Eliot Morison's unrivaled gifts as a chronicler of the sea and thereby to sustain a grand narrative sweep through this 14th and final volume of his History of United States Naval Operations in World...
July 31, Professor Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School...
Bucknell University Samuel Eliot Morison, naval chronicler, emeritus professor of history, Harvard University L.H.D...
Among 13 Pulitzer Prizes awarded in the arts, journalism and letters, a salute went to prolific Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (his second Pulitzer) for his biography, John Paul Jones. The hit musicomedy Fiorello!, written by indefatigable (at 70) George Abbott with Jerome Weidman, was the third musical ever to win such an award (the others: Of Thee I Sing and South Pacific). Outstanding in the field of international reporting: the New York Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least...