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Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. x, 737 p. Tables. Chronology of Navy Department. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Originally produced as a study for the U.S. Navy, this work had limited distribution. General publication occurred approximately 30 years after the work was completed. It was published, with some reconstruction of chapters by the Editor, because there was no other comprehensive study of policy and administration from the founding of the Navy in 1798 until the establishment of the Defense Department in 1947, This work examines and defines institutions and institutional mechanisms. It is a superb account of real people acting in real situations, confronting actual problems as they arose from the complex matrix of our national experience, and finding or improvising solutions.