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 influence that
rivaled those who were elected to high office, and that protected
him from them when his controversial methods became objectionable
or, as critics would suggest, undermined the nation's vital
interests. Authors Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, whose
full-length biography of Rickover (in manuscript in 1981) was
consulted by the Reagan Administration during the decision to
remove him from active duty, are eminently qualified to write an
essential treatment on the controversial genius of Admiral
Rickover.
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