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Book Review

Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence. By Francis Duncan. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. xx, 364 pp. $37.50, ISBN 1-55750-177-7.)

All dedicated and thorough biographers come to know their subjects so well that, even when the subject has a difficult personality, the writer develops an understanding and respect for the character. The mark of a really excellent biography is when the author is able to display that understanding and at the same time give the reader an unvarnished account of the subject's foibles, mistakes, and negative traits. Francis Duncan, in his long-awaited full biography of Hyman Rickover, achieves that difficult dual goal of close personal insight and honesty of distance. . . .

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