"Commodore Levy" Topic

A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail By Irving Litvag.

"Having read Saving Monticello (reviewed here) by Marc Leepson, this reviewer wanted to know more about Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, the man who did the saving and the subject of this novel. Novelists are permitted literary license, but Levy's eventful life required no embellishments and those there are, are mercifully few. Irving Litvag was a former news writer for the CBS Radio Network. He was not a historian. That being said, it is evident that a great deal of research went into this book and that it was a labor of love. The author's admiration for his subject is as unmistakable as it understandable.

Uriah Phillips Levy's was born on April 22, 1792, in Philadelphia, PA. His naval career began 10 years later when he ran away from home to become a cabin boy aboard the New Jerusalem. Perhaps that was usual for sea-struck boys in those days. However, Jewish boys from devout families did not usually run away to sign up for two-year stints as cabin boys…"
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Armand

I am surprised that the article doesn't mention that he was Captain of the frigate USS Macedonian.