Privateers and Patriots

From the On Point radio show earlier in the week:

• Host Tom Ashbrook’s conversation with Robert H. Patton, author of Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution. (Also available as an mp3 podcast through iTunes.)
  
• Excerpt from that book, via Random House.
• Online comments, which get better as they go along.

Plus a link to another recent book on the war at sea, James Nelson’s Washington’s Secret Navy.