Jeff Nesmith
Encyclopedia
Jeff Nesmith is an American journalist. Together with Russell Carrollo, he won the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 for National Reporting in 1998.

Life

He is a graduate of the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

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Nesmith is also the author of "No Higher Honor", a book about the USS Yorktown
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Yorktown is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name...

, aka "Uncle Joe's boat".

Works

  • No higher honor: the U.S.S. Yorktown at the Battle of Midway, Longstreet, 1999, ISBN 9781563525520

External links

  • http://www.coxwashington.com/reporters/content/reporters/nesmith_j.html
  • http://www.amazon.com/No-Higher-Honor-U-S-S-Yorktown/dp/1563525526
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