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Book Review


An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703–1752. By Julian Gwyn. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xvi, 228 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2709-8.)
The film director Woody Allen once complained about having his recent films compared unfavorably with his earlier classics. Unfortunately, Julian Gwyn will probably empathize with Allen's lament. Gwyn began An Admiral for America, a biography of Adm. Sir Peter Warren, forty years ago. Why did it take so long to write? Gwyn set the biography aside "to attempt something more original: an analysis of his private fortune" (p. xii). Historians of early America and the Royal Navy benefited from this decision, because The Enterprising Admiral: The Personal Fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1974) is much more than a study of a wealthy naval officer. It is an original and valuable examination of the interconnected nature of Britain's mid-eighteenth-century empire and the Royal Navy's key role in tying it together. Long before it was fashionable, Gwyn wrote superb Atlantic history. His careful edition of Warren's extensive correspondence, The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers, 1736–1752 (1973), has also aided historians of Britain and America. After two important works concerning Warren, could Gwyn add yet another? Woody Allen knows the answer. . . .
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