New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1966.
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. [6], 138 pp. 24 cm. Illustrated with printed photographs. Publishers' gray cloth. Near fine with moderate age-toning to the endpapers, in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing, scattered spotting and a few small tears to the edges. Inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion: "To Gene Tunney, with best wishes from his friend, J.J. 'Jocko' Clark, 17 May 1967." Admiral Clark, a native of Oklahoma, was a member of the Cherokee tribe. He was the first Native American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy, in 1917. He was a decorated commander of aircraft carriers during World War II. During the Korean War, he commanded the Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 77), and later, as Vice Admiral, the entire 7th Fleet.
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