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Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retired--involuntarily--some thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect of the nuclear Navy but also its builder. In the process, he erected a network of power and influen
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- Author
- Thomas B. Allen; Norman Polmar
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781612340692
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Military, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (47 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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