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Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U. S. naval history, his tenure coinciding with a number of dramas such as the innovative 1940 bases-for-destroyers initiative (which he conceptualized prior to entering the administration), the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic against Germany s U-boats in 1941, the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the subsequent naval war in the Pacific, and naval landings in North Africa and Italy. Knox s most important contribution to the war effort was his leadership in building a 1, 000-ship fleet, without which the much-heralded landings and battles might never have been possible. In this comprehensive biography, Christopher D. O Sullivan offers a portrait of the Roughrider in FDR s cabinet.