From reading and research at SDPL, I wrote my own nonfiction book

From reading and research at SDPL and elsewhere, I wrote a 300-page book about how the U.S. military modernized itself after the Vietnam War, specifically in Navy ships often based here in San Diego. Library materials enabled me to place interviews and my own experiences into contexts and to recognize priorities. SDPL staff obtained for me an important research paper. Titled Electronic Greyhounds: The Spruance-class Destroyers, my book was published by the Naval Institute Press in 1995. I took my family to Europe on the royalties. SDPL itself had my book in its collection for decades.