Best-selling author, Eric Jay Dolin, reclaims the daring sailors who proved essential to winning the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character--above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos.
Dolin corrects that omission, contending privateers (often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst) were in fact critical to the Revolution’s outcome.
Book sales, signing and reception to follow.
Details on Attending
Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
303 Pearl St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Thursday, September 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
1000 Beal St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
