Willis John Abbot was an American

United States

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 journalist, and a prolific author of war, army, navy, marine corps and merchant marine books.

Biography

Abbot wrote for the Hearst's

William Randolph Hearst

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 New York Journal

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, in 1921, named the editor of Christian Science Monitor

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He had a brief career in politics leading the movement for Ethics Enforcement with Herbert Bayard Swope

Herbert Bayard Swope

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 working on the constitution of the ANSE

Anse

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. All these actions taken towards ethics amelioration was seen negatively by president Hopwood. Throughout this ethics debate. W. J. Abbot was on the board of directors of ANSE.

Partial bibliography

• Battle-Fields of '61 - A Narrative of the Military Operations of the War for the Union Up to the End of the Peninsular Campaign - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1889 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
• Battle-Fields and Campfires - A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War From the Removal of McClellan to the Accession of Grant (1862 - 1663) - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
• Battle-Fields and Victory - A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War From the Accession of Grant to the End of the War - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1891 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
• Blue-Jackets of '76 - A History of the Naval Battles of the American Revolution - Together with a Narrative of the War with Tripoli - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1888 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
• Blue-Jackets of 1812 - A History of the Naval Battles of the Second War With Great Britain - To Which is Prefixed an Account of the French War of 1798 - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1887 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
• Blue-Jackets of 1918 - Being the Story of the Work of the American Navy in the World War - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1921 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
• Naval History of the United States, Volume 1, a re-issue of the Blue-Jackets of '76, and part of Blue-Jackets of 1812. Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
• Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, a re-issue of part of Blue-Jackets of 1812, Blue-Jackets of '61, and Blue-Jackets in Time of Peace. Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
• American Merchant Ships and Sailors - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1902 - With Illustrations by Ray Brown
• The Story of Our Merchant Marine - Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World War - a re-issue of American Merchant Ships and Sailors - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1902, 1919 - With Illustrations by Ray Brown
• Soldiers of the Sea - The Story of the United States Marine Corps - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1918 - With Photographs
• Panama and the Canal - in Picture and Prose - a Complete Story of Panama, as Well as the History, Purpose and Promise of Its World-Famous Canal - The Most Gigantic Engineering Undertaking Since the Dawn of Time - Syndicate Publishing Company, London, New York, Toronto, 1913 - Water-Colors By E. J. Read and Gordon Grant, with Over 600 Photographs Taken by Staff
• The Nations at War - A Current History - Illustrated with Many Plates in Full Color, Photographs From Private Sources, Maps, Charts, and Diagrams - Syndicate Publishing Company, 1914 (revised editions published in 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Leslie-Judge Company, New York)
• Pictorial History of the World War - Leslie-Judge Company, New York, 1918 - With Numerous Illustrations from Drawings by the Foremost War Artists and Photographs Taken in the Field by Experts of Every Nation
• The United States in the Great War - Leslie-Judge Company, New York, 1919 - With Many Illustrations from Drawings, in Color and Black and White, and Photographs Taken by Experts, Many of Them Under Fire.
• Notable Women in History - the Lives of Women Who in All Ages, All Lands and in All Womanly Occupations Have Won Fame and Put Their Imprint on the World's History - The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1912 - Illustrated
• Watching the World Go By - Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933 (autobiography)
• Aircraft and Submarines, the Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-day Uses of War's Newest Weapons - G. P. Putnam's and Sons, New York and London, 1918
• The Battle of 1900 - An Official Hand-Book for Every American Citizen - Issues and Platforms of All Parties - with Portraits and biographies of the Leaders - Including the Lives of the Presidential Candidates - Co-Authored with L. White Busby, Oliver W. Stewart, and Dr. Howard S. Taylor - Monarch Book Company, Chicago and Philadelphia, 1900

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