Rickover : father of the nuclear Navy / Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Thomas B.

Contributor:

Polmar, Norman.

Series:

Military profiles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rickover, Hyman George.

United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.

United States.

United States. Navy.

Admirals--United States--Biography.

Admirals.

Nuclear warships.

History.

Nuclear submarines.

Nuclear submarines--United States--History.

Nuclear warships--United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 103 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2007]

Summary:

Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived his career. He retired--involuntarily--some thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect of the nuclear Navy but also its builder. In the process, he erected a network of power and influence that rivaled those who were elected to high office and that protected him from them when his controversial methods became objectionable or, as critics would suggest, undermined the nation's vital interests. Authors Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, whose full-length biography of Rickover (in manuscript in 1981) was consulted by the Reagan Administration during the decision to remove him from active duty, are eminently qualified to write an essential treatment of the controversial genius of Admiral Rickover.

Contents:

Victory at sea

Father's occupation: tailor

The Navy and the atom

Building the Nautilus

Admiral of the hill

The Rickover navy

Danger: radiation hazard

Rickover the man

Getting rid of Rickover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96) and index.

ISBN:

157488445X

9781574884456

1574887041

9781574887044

OCLC:

70483520