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Title: Patriot Pirates
Author: Robert H. Patton
Narrator: Alan Sklar
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-08
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genres: History, American
Summary:
In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, the grandson of the battlefield genius of World War II, explains how privatizing engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might earn in a year; and how privatizing created fortunes that survive to this day.
As one naval historian wrote, "The great battles of the American Revolution were fought on land, but independence was won at sea."
Patton tells how, in addition to its strategic and economic importance, privatizing played a large political role in the Revolution. For example, Benjamin Franklin, from his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged skippers to sell their captured goods in French ports - a calculated effort on Franklin's part to break the neutrality agreements between France and Britain, bring the two countries to blows, and take the pressure off American fighters.
This is a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit and national freedom.
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