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Kenneth HaganAuthor of This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power and Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College, Monterey ProgramWriting with the awed voice of a seafaring poet and the tenacity of a trial lawyer, Buckner Melton creates a sense of immediacy concerning the near-mutiny aboard the naval brig Somers in 1842. The mesmerizing story is as troubling today as it was a century and a half ago.

Clive Cussler Enough intrigue and drama to satisfy the most demanding reader of history. Melton has no equal in recording sea history. Kenneth Hagan Author of This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power and Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College, Monterey Program Writing with the awed voice of a seafaring poet and the tenacity of a trial lawyer, Buckner Melton creates a sense of immediacy concerning the near-mutiny aboard the naval brig Somers in 1842. The mesmerizing story is as troubling today as it was a century and a half ago. Thomas Farel Heffernan Author of Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock An exciting and engrossing account of a great naval tragedy. Melton's thoroughly researched depiction of the national and nautical background of the affair and his penetrating analysis of its participants make the Somers story understandable and riveting as never before. David W. Shaw Author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic In this well-researched and faithful account of the attempted mutiny aboard the brig Somers in 1842, Buckner F. Melton, Jr., brings to light a little-known chapter of maritime history. The book is rich in detail and compelling, a blend of high-seas adventure and legal drama.

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Buckner F. Melton, Jr., is a historian and professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An occasional commentator for National Public Radio, PBS, and MSNBC, he is also author to The First Impeachment, Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason, and A Hanging Offense.

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