America's Victory

by David W. Shaw

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First published: 2002 1 language ISBN: 9780743235167
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In 1850 a brilliant young boat designer and an unlikely team of men faced the might and arrogance of the British empire in a yacht race for the Great Exhibition. The schooner America set sail against the world's greatest maritime power at a turning point in the growth of a young nation's confidence that is also the story of the American spirit that lives on today.

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