This book is a biography of the first admiral in the US Navy, Admiral David Farragut. Most of the book concerns the events of the US Civil War when Farragut was in command of the US Western Blockade Squadron. He was in charge of the effort to recapture New Orleans from the Confederates and open the Mississippi River.

As I read the book I felt as if I were reading a High School textbook. The vocabulary and syntax seemed simple and straightforward. That does not mean that it was not a good book merely that it was simple and easy to read.

Most of the maps included were slightly substandard, several of which had legends too small to read. The photographs in the book were clear and interesting. For anyone who wants a quick read of the life of Admiral Farragut and an overview of the US Navy's campaign on the Mississippi River and Mobile Bay, this is an adequate book.