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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
4.0

The Secretary of the Navy during the Spanish-American War was George Dewey. Of his annihilation of the enemy's ships in the Philippines, Vowell writes, "Dewey decimated the navy." I cackled. So there, I admit it, even though I'm sure the destruction was more than 10%, I laughed like a monkey.