摘要：On 26 July 2003, The Navy commissioned USS Mustin (DDG 89) at San Diego. Designed to serve well into the 21stcentury, this Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named for four officers and a previous destroyer that served in the 20thcentury. Coinciding with the commissioning, the Naval Institute Press published Mustin: A Naval Family of the 20thCentury. With publication sponsored by a major defense contractor and a first cousin of two of the subjects selected to write the three generational story, one would expect a celebratory puff piece. However, John Fass Morton, a veteran defense analyst and gifted writer, weaves together a narrative that not only seriously explores the personal struggles and career challenges faced by each of the Mustins, but in a broader sense, follows the United States Navy and its internal and external conflicts as the service rose to its current dominant presence on the world's oceans.
