About the Author

Benjamin Franklin Cooling is the author of more than twenty books, including Benjamin Franklin Tracy: Father of the Modern American Fighting Navy, Gray Steel and Bluewater Navy, and Robley D. Evans: A Sailor's Log.

Reviews

"No one knows more than Benjamin Franklin Cooling about the new navy of the 1880s, and no one knows as much about its most famous ship, the USS Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay in 1898. This fully researched and highly readable book should grace the bookshelf of anyone interested in the naval history of the nation."--David F. Trask, former chief historian of the U.S. Army Center for Military History