Steven Ujifusa
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Steven Brooks Ujifusa is an American historian and the author of three books on maritime history.
Ujifusa majored in history as an undergraduate at Harvard University, and earned a master's degree in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He is the recipient of the Washington Irving Literary Medal from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York,[2] and the Literary Prize for Non-Fiction from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.[3] His first book, A Man and His Ship, was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2012.[4]
Books
[edit]Ujifusa is the author of:
- A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States. (Simon & Schuster, 2012)[5]
- Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship (Simon & Schuster, 2018)[6]
- The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I (HarperCollins, 2023)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ujifusa, Steven". German National Library. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ "Literary Medal". Saint Nicholas Society. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
- ^ "Athenaeum of Philadelphia--Literary Award". web3.philaathenaeum.org. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
- ^ "The Best Non-Fiction of 2012". December 14, 2012.
- ^ Reviews of A Man and His Ship:
- John Steele Gordon (2012), "The Anti-Titanic", The Wall Street Journal
- Jay Freeman (2012), Booklist, [1]
- Kirkus Reviews (2012), [2]
- Salvatore R. Mercogliano (2012–2013), Sea History, [3]
- Don Preul (2013), U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, [4]
- Paul Stillwell (2013), "Looking Back – The Last Great American Liner", Naval History
- Publishers Weekly, [5]
- ^ Reviews of Barons of the Sea:
- Steve Donoghue (2018), "'Barons of the Sea' chronicles the race to build the perfect clipper ship", The Christian Science Monitor
- Keith Johnson (2018), Foreign Policy, JSTOR 26535823
- Cary C. Collins (2019), Journal of the West, EBSCOhost 144650150
- Kirkus Reviews (2018), [6]
- James Ewing (2019), "Pelagic thoroughbreds", The New Criterion, EBSCOhost 134368442
- Practical Sailor (2019), EBSCOhost 134140448
- Timothy J. Demy (2023), The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord, doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1119
- Publishers Weekly, [7]
- ^ Reviews of The Last Ships from Hamburg:
- Diane Cole (2023), "Voyage to the Golden Land", The Wall Street Journal
- Jan Drent (2023), The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord, doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1225
- David Nasaw (2024), "The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration", The New York Times
- Kirkus Reviews (2023), [8]
- Publishers Weekly, [9]
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