Summary of Marc Wortman's Admiral Hyman Rickover

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.
#2 When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was penniless and alone. He spent the next few years saving up enough money to bring his wife and two children to join him. However, on the night before the Finland arrived in New York Harbor, Ruchia gave the purser the last of her money.
#3 Abraham Rickover, after the war, started over again. He moved his family to Chicago, and found work as a tailor at a men’s clothing manufacturer. He eventually bought another income-generating apartment building.
#4 Rickover’s family was poor, and he had to work to help support them. He started working at age nine, and by the time he was in high school, he was working 70 hours a week. He did not have the opportunity to study or read good books.

Sujets

• Military
• Naval

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358459
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Marc Wortman's Admiral Hyman Rickover
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.

#2

When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was penniless and alone. He spent the next few years saving up enough money to bring his wife and two children to join him. However, on the night before the Finland arrived in New York Harbor, Ruchia gave the purser the last of her money.

#3

Abraham Rickover, after the war, started over again. He moved his family to Chicago, and found work as a tailor at a men’s clothing manufacturer. He eventually bought another income-generating apartment building.

#4

Rickover’s family was poor, and he had to work to help support them. He started working at age nine, and by the time he was in high school, he was working 70 hours a week. He did not have the opportunity to study or read good books.

#5

Rickover was a Jewish immigrant from what is today the Czech Republic who served as a telegraph boy for Congressman Adolph J. Sabath. He heard that the Academy would consider his nomination, but first he had to pass a demanding series of admissions exams.

#6

Rickover was in the Navy, an outcome that was as unlikely as a mule winning a thoroughbred horse race. He would never leave. His time at the Academy almost ended before it truly began when he was possibly exposed to diphtheria and put into quarantine.

#7

As a Jewish immigrant, Rickover stood out from the rest of the brigade. He was one of only seventeen Jews in his plebe class, less than 2 percent of entering students. Jews were never spoken to in casual conversation or even acknowledged by fellow middies except by way of insult.

#8

Rickover’s time at the Naval Academy was difficult, though he improved his grades every year. He loathed the juvenile rituals that constituted the life force of the Academy, and he never forgave his fellow middies for treating him poorly.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Rickover was assigned to the La Vallette, a destroyer, in 1922. He quickly became fascinated with the ship’s inner workings, and spent every spare minute below deck studying them. He became the youngest ensign in the Pacific squadron in charge of a destroyer’s engine room and its thirty-six-man black gang who kept the machine running.

#2

Rickover was promoted to lieutenant in 1927, and he went to Columbia University in New York City for a year of graduate study in electrical engineering. He enjoyed the experience, and it changed his life in many determinative ways.

#3

Rickover was a fan of the Technocracy Movement, which was a loosely knit group of academics centered in New York City who championed the idea that Machine Age society needed to adapt to the rigors of new and ever-more-complex technologies. He believed that the men who can handle the intricate mysteries of complex scientific and engineering projects should maintain professional independence.

#4

Rickover was smitten with Ruth Masters, a woman who was two years younger than him and two inches taller. He proposed to her a working partnership in marriage, with a vision she appreciated: to combine her work with his.

#5

The S-48 was a pigboat, meaning it was extremely dangerous and uncomfortable. Between poor living conditions and dangerous equipment, life on S-48 grew tense. Rickover was hated by his crew, and he was sent to a shore billet after his tour.

#6

Rickover was no longer a practicing Jew, but he still had a strong bond with his Jewish heritage.