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Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook), 1957-
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Privateering -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook), 1957-
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Privateering -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Patriot pirates : the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution / Robert H. Patton.
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Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook), 1957-
Pantheon Books, 2008.
Call #:
973
.35
P322p
Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Privateering -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9780307390554 (Vintage pbk. 2009)
9780375422843
0375422846
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxii, 291 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-278) and index.
Contents:
The good people of Hollywood -- Hard work -- Producers -- Victims and villains -- Jews in show business -- The development process; or, learning to make nothing at all! -- The repressive mechanism -- A dark comedy -- An American tragedy -- An understanding and a misunderstanding of the repressive mechanism -- Corruption -- The screenplay -- How to write a screenplay -- Character, plot, dialogue, camera angles, advice to the editor -- Helpful hints on screenwriting -- The script -- Women, writing for -- How scripts got so bad -- Begging letters -- (Secret bonus chapter) the three magic questions -- Technique -- Storytelling : some technical advice -- Learning by doing -- Improvisation -- The slate piece -- The wisdom of the ancients -- Some principles -- The audience; or, lessons from duck hunting -- Aesthetic distance -- The five-gag film -- Bringing a gun to a knife fight; or, a short tour of the concept of suspension of disbelief -- Genre -- Bang-bang -- The cop movie -- Film Noir and He-Men -- Shadow of a doubt -- Religious films -- The sequel -- Passing judgment -- Reverence as opposed to love -- Great and rotten acting -- Good in the room : auditions and the fallacy of testing -- Critics -- The critic and the censor -- Crimes and misdemeanors -- Manners in Hollywood -- Theft -- Two great American documents; or, in the wake of the Oscars -- Conclusion : it ain't over till it's over.
Summary:
A revelation of America's War of Independence, a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit as well as national freedom. Privateers were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. Patton writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to an often cutthroat network of agents who sold captured goods and sparked wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might otherwise earn in a year; and how they turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade. Vast fortunes made through privateering survive to this day, among them those of the Peabodys, Cabots, and Lowells of Massachusetts, and the Derbys and Browns of Rhode Island.--From publisher description.
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