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Richmond Pearson Hobson: Naval Hero from Magnolia Grove

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Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson came into public prominence in 1898 when the Spanish-American War was not going well for the United States. Hobson undertook a seemingly suicide mission designed to sink the USS Merrimac in Santiago Harbor in Cuba and survived. This was a complex man who was both a romantic and deeply disillusioned, who had loyal friends and determined detractors, who experience high popularity and public rejection, wh was considered by some as an extremely moral person and by others as a self-righteous crusader. This was also a man who became an Alabama Congressman, a Civil Rights advocate, a Women's Rights advocate, and an who advocated international drug controls and prohibition. Richmond Pearson Hobson: The Naval Hero From Magnolia Grove is the impressively researched and superbly presented, and highly recommended biography of an unusual man who predicted political changes well before they became reality and very strongly advocated the need for an American Naval power in the Pacific to deter the Japanese. A stance that brought him severe ridicule for forty years, until Pearl Harbor and the onslaught of World War II.