Rebels At Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution​ with Eric Jay Dolin

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Best-selling author, Eric Jay Dolin, reclaims the daring sailors who proved essential to winning the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character--above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. Dolin corrects that omission, contending privateers (often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst) were in fact critical to the Revolution’s outcome.

Book sales, signing and reception to follow.