America's Pirate Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/books/review/21HITCH.html?pagewanted=all
By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
In the early years of the Republic, America was threatened by pirates
at home and overseas. Each of three new books treats a different aspect
of that vertiginous period.
THE PIRATES LAFFITE
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf.
By William C. Davis.
Illustrated. 706 pp. Harcourt. $28.
THE BARBARY WARS
American Independence in the Atlantic World.
By Frank Lambert.
Illustrated. 228 pp. Hill & Wang. $24.
WHITE GOLD
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White
Slaves.
By Giles Milton.
Illustrated. 316 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25.
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