"In outline, The Two Admirals...is as romantic as The Pilot or Red Rover...The details, however, are in large part solid and real, and events are so handled that they raise philosophical questions—the more interesting because Cooper keeps personally aloof and neither asks nor answers them directly—about the notion of legitimacy in government and the conventions of loyalty and obedience." — James Grossman, James Fenimore Cooper (William Sloane Associates, The American Men of Letters Series, pp. 157-58).

• Acknowledgments Illustrations Historical Introduction Preface [1842] Preface to The Two Admirals [1851] The Two Admirals Explanatory Notes Textual Commentary Note on the Manuscript Textual Notes Emendations Rejected Readings Word-Division

"In outline, The Two Admirals...is as romantic as The Pilot or Red Rover...The details, however, are in large part solid and real, and events are so handled that they raise philosophical questions—the more interesting because Cooper keeps personally aloof and neither asks nor answers them directly—about the notion of legitimacy in government and the conventions of loyalty and obedience." — James Grossman, James Fenimore Cooper (William Sloane Associates, The American Men of Letters Series, pp. 157-58).

• Acknowledgments Illustrations Historical Introduction Preface [1842] Preface to The Two Admirals [1851] The Two Admirals Explanatory Notes Textual Commentary Note on the Manuscript Textual Notes Emendations Rejected Readings Word-Division