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Donald Tortorice
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Donald Tortorice is a "retired attorney and law professor. For more than 20
years he was a partner in Duane Morris, LLP, an international law firm
headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for 13 years he taught as a
professor at the Law School of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg,
Virginia. He also taught as a visiting professor at the Dickinson law school of
Penn State University, the University of San Diego, and the University of
Richmond. Don is an honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the
Law school of the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the author of
The Modern Rules of Order and several law texts in the field of health law and
bioethics. I, Horatio is his first novel. Prior to law school he served for five
years as a US naval officer, serving initially aboard a destroyer named the USS
John W. Thomason in the Pacific. In 196667, he commanded a swift boat in
Vietnam, where he was awarded the individual Cross of Gallantry by the Republic
of South Vietnam. He completed his naval career as an Assistant Professor of
Naval Science at Yale University. Don currently resides in Pinehurst, North
Carolina, where he plays golf, reads, writes and travels frequently." Donald
Tortorice is the author of I, Horatio: A Novel of Historical Fiction.
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According to the book description of I, Horatio: A Novel of Historical
Fiction, "This book is the first presentation of the life of Horatio
Nelson to be narrated in the first person, a recounting of his life in his own
words. It begins with Nelson as a young 21-year-old captain in the Caribbean and
goes to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Along the way his experiences in
carrying out the vision of his duty in the Caribbean, Corsica, Tenerife, the
Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar cost him his
eye, his right arm, and ultimately his life, all because he was blessed and
cursed with a nature that was blind to the specter of failure and deaf to
anything other than the call of duty, the clamor of battle, and victory. He was
also a mortal man whose attraction to women brought pleasure, frustration,
infatuation, and ultimately lifelong satisfaction. This is his story as he would
tell it."
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