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Index to 184 Books for the Surname Halsey
submitted by LHB
HALSEY Bibliography
"Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and
Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679, with his American
Descendants to the Eighth and Ninth Generations," by
Jacob Lafayette Halsey and Edmund Drake Halsey, published
in 1895.
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"Halsey Genealogy Since 1395 A.D.," Halsey,
David, Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1995 xxix, 451 p.
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Halsey Genealogy Since 1395 A.D., Book Two – David
Halsey. An excellent companion volume to Book One and an
easy to follow introduction to Halsey family genealogy,
this second volume broadens the scope of David
Halsey’s research on the Halsey family to include
more new information on the immigrant Thomas Halsey
(d.1678). The male line of descent is followed through
eighteen generations up to the present day. This new
edition is compatible with another important early Halsey
genealogy, Jacob Lafayette and Edmund Drake Halsey’s
Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton,
Long Island, 1591 to 1679, with his American Descendants
to the Eighth and Ninth Generations, published in 1895.
2000, 267 pp., bibl., fullname index, paper, $25.50
#ZH1432
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Admiral Halsey's Story (American Autobiography)
by William Halsey
Library Binding - 310 pages (January 1947)
Reprint Services Corp; ISBN: 0781285461
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Inscriptions on the Tomb Stones and Monuments in the
Grave Yards at Whippany and Hanover, Morris County, N.J.,
1894
by William O Wheeler, Edmund D Halsey
Paperback (June 1984)
Hunterdon House; ISBN: 0912606169
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Old New York Frontier, 1614-1800
by Francis W. Halsey
Hardcover - 432 pages (March 1993)
Reprint Services Corp; ISBN: 0781251818
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Fleet Admiral the Story of William F. Halsey
by L. A. Keating
ASIN: 066432343X
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Epitaphs from Burial Hill : Marblehead
by William Halsey
Paperback (June 1985)
Center for Thanatology Research & Education; ISBN:
0930194055
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Bull Halsey
by Elmer Belmont Potter
Hardcover - 421 pages (November 1985)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870211463 ; Dimensions
(in inches): 1.09 x 10.35 x 7.47
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Brother Against Brother : The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt.
Edmund Halsey
by Edmund Halsey, Bruce Chadwick (Editor), Elmund Halsey
Hardcover - 288 pages (May 1997)
Birch Lane Pr; ISBN: 1559724013 ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.17 x 9.31 x 6.35
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Sketches from Local History Long Island N.Y.
by William D. Halsey
ASIN: 091166002X
Availability: This title is out of print.
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REVIEWS
These Customer Reviews were found on the Amazon.com
website.
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Halsey genealogy since 1395 A.D
by David Halsey
ASIN: 0788402854
Availability: This title is out of print.
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Customer Reviews
An informative, and amusing book, April 1, 1998
Reviewer: Jacki L. Chase from Kent WA (suburb of Seattle)
For anyone related to the Halsey family, this book is a
must! Not only does it give names, and dates. It gives
mini-bio's on some people. I always laugh when reading
about the ancestor, a ship's captain, who was killed by
his own crew. It's just funny how it is written. My copy
is dog-eared, and eventually I will have to get another
copy.
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Brother Against Brother : The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt.
Edmund Halsey
by Edmund Halsey, Bruce Chadwick (Editor), Elmund Halsey
Hardcover - 288 pages (May 1997)
Birch Lane Pr; ISBN: 1559724013 ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.17 x 9.31 x 6.35
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Editorial Reviews
From Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 1997
A thin exercise in documentary
history, drawing on nondescript letters from two New
Jerseyborn brothers who happened to fight on opposite
sides in the Civil War Journalist-turned-historian
Chadwick (Rutgers Univ.) cobbles together an unrevealing
account of the Halsey brothers' lives and fortunes. It
does not help that his chief protagonist,
Princeton-educated Edmund Halsey, a Union officer,
confined most of his letters home to family and the local
newspaper to complaining about the food and the boredom
of camp life, and that his writing is listless and
general; we seldom see any glimpse of his character, his
reaction to the great events and battles of his time. Nor
does it help that the letters of Edmund's older brother,
the proslavery convert Joseph Halsey, are similarly dry
and few in number. This leaves Chadwick the onerous task
of trying, through extensive annotations, to make the
correspondence more interesting than it is. When Edmund
writes, then, to his father that the Emancipation
Proclamation is ``either the best or the worst thing
which could be done,'' it falls to Chadwick to explain
that the proclamation caused controversy in the North
inasmuch as it was meant ``to change the entire political
and cultural life of the nation.'' In this instance--and
it is representative--Halsey's statement is opaque, and
the commentary merely assertive, raising more questions
than it answers (how was the proclamation intended to
recast the nation?). And Chadwick's annotations are too
often misplaced; we learn from them, for instance, that
New Jersey is called the Garden State ``for its flowers
and because of its place as one of the country's leading
vegetable growers,'' while critical details of, say, the
Battle of Spotsylvania pass by unremarked. Only
specialists in New Jersey's role in the Civil War will
find much of use in this collection. -- Copyright ©1997,
Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Synopsis
Told and seen from the viewpoint of two men struggling to
maintain their ties to country, friends, and family while
fighting on opposite sides of the war, a series of
battles and political decisions, recounted in diary
format, puts the Civil War into a new and compelling
perspective.
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Bull Halsey
by Elmer Belmont Potter
Hardcover - 421 pages (November 1985)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870211463 ; Dimensions
(in inches): 1.09 x 10.35 x 7.47
Customer Reviews
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Very Enjoyable, February 11, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Annapolis, MD
Kept me interested from cover to cover. E.B. Potter does
an excellent job of bringing history to life with this
biography of Halsey.
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NOT disappointed!, February 8, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Milwaukee, WI
I read all three of EBPotter's naval biographies and
found the Halsey biography to be on par with Nimitz and
Burke. While not as lengthy as other Halsey biographies,
I could not put the book down because I found it so
interesting and compelling.
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What a disappointment, September 3, 1999
Reviewer: A reader from West Des Moines, USA
I purchased this book expecting it to be on a par with
the biographies of Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz,
George S. Patton Jr. and Dwight D. Eisenhower that have
been written by such authors as William Manchester,
Carlos D'Este, Stephen Ambrose and yes, E.B. Potter.
Needless to say, I was disappointed after reading this
book.
The organization of the book was spotty in the beginning,
alternating between the events surrounding the attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1941 and afterwards and Halsey's early
years. I would have preferred it had Potter begun with
Halsey's geneaological background and progressed through
to his years at Annapolis, his years commanding
destroyers, the time he learned how to fly (even though
his eyesight did not meet Navy standards), and his
leadership during World War II. Or the book could have
opened with Halsey issuing his first battle order before
the attack on Pearl Harbor and then going to a straight
narrative (without shifting back and forth between Pearl
Harbor and his early years). The organization of the
book, as it is, distracts from the portrait that Potter
is trying to paint of his subject, which is colorful
enough.
But Potter doesn't let the person of Admiral Halsey truly
step forth. There is much that I would have liked to have
learned, which this book does not answer. For example,
what was his family ancestry? What was his family life
like? Why did he develop his prejudices against the
Japanese, and did he have any others?
The author has merely scratched the surface of his
subject with this work. As this book demonstrates, Halsey
was popular with the sailors and naval officers, and did
much to guarantee the Allied victory in the Pacific, yet
more than once he was reckless with the lives of his
sailors and naval officers. A full biography of Halsey,
in the style of AMERICAN CAESAR or PATTON: A GENIUS FOR
WAR has yet to be written.
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A fantastic biography of Halsey's life and career,
February 13, 1998
Reviewer: A reader from Amherst MA
A biography that retains both the levity of the man and
the seriousness of the situation. Potter definitely
deserves praise for this great biography.
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Epitaphs from Burial Hill : Marblehead
by William Halsey
Paperback (June 1985)
Center for Thanatology Research & Education; ISBN:
0930194055
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Customer Reviews
I really enjoyed this book!, July 14, 1998
Reviewer: A reader from USA
I found this book to be very interesting and helpful!
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