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The USS Texas (BB-35) was laid down in 1911 and commissioned in 1914 as the most modern battleship in the American fleet. It fired its guns in two world wars, stood off the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, bombarded the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima, survived the kamikazes of Okinawa, and outlived every comparable vessel of its era to become the last surviving dreadnought battleship in the world. That survival was not guaranteed. It was the product of a century of decisions - industrial, strategic, political, and human - whose combined weight this book examines with the full seriousness the record demands. From the laying of the keel at Newport News to the great restoration at Galveston, USS Texas: From the Birth of the Dreadnought to the Restoration of the Last Survivor traces the complete arc of a ship whose existence spans the entire modern era of American naval power. This is not a book about the romance of the battleship. It is a book about what the Texas reveals when examined honestly - about industrial civilization's capacity for organized violence, about the men who built and fought and preserved it, and about what a society declares when it decides that a particular object of steel and rivets and gun barrels deserves to outlast the era that created it. The last dreadnought is still here. This is its full story.

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