Admiral of the Sea Author:Samuel Eliot Morison Author, Samuel Morison, born in Boston in 1887, was official historian of US naval operations in WW!!. Educated at Harvard, served on faculty of University of California, Harvard and Oxford, where he was the first incumbent of the new chair of American History . Writes introduction to this special edition and recalls the genesis of the book wi... more »th great gusto. One suspects that of the entire prodigious output of this seamqn-scholar-writer's life, this book is probably his favorite.« less