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The Autobiography of a Seaman
May 20, 2015
One of my favorite '90s bands, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion spat lyrics that often included their band name or shrilled, "You gonna know my name!", as if they were doing their own advertising right there and then, in song, because if you don't blow your own horn...fuck, no one else will.
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That's how it was back in the old days.
You had to toot your own flute to get ahead, and sometimes just to get your own, your just desserts. Military leaders of the past especially had to head up their own public relations.
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Some had rich and influential friends and relations who might round out the PR team, but mostly it was DIY.
Such were the times for Admiral Lord Cochrane, one of the courageous and daring British naval captains during the Napoleonic Wars.
Forester's Hornblower series and Patrick O'Brian's long-running Master and Commander series both modeled their heros after Cochrane. So exciting was his career, little in the way of fiction nee