America's Victory
The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans -- And How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever
by David W. Shaw
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In 1850 a brilliant young boat designer and an unlikely team of men faced the might and arrogance of the British empire in a yacht race for the Great Exhibition. The schooner America set sail against the world's greatest maritime power at a turning point in the growth of a young nation's confidence that is also the story of the American spirit that lives on today.
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America's Victory: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans -- And How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever
April 2004, Sheridan House
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America's Victory: Library Edition
January 2004, Blackstone Audiobooks
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America's Victory: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans-- and How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever
December 24, 2002, Free Press
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