Ambrose, Stephen E.

Duty, honor, country : a history of West Point / Stephen E. Ambrose; foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower; afterword by Andrew J. Goodpaster. - Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 c1966 - xv, 377 p. : ill.,photogrs. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: 1966.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-362) and index.

The beginning-- The foundling-- Alden partridge-- Sylvanus thayer-- Thayer's curriculum and faculty-- The Jacksonians and the academy-- The golden age, 1840-1860-- Cadet life-- Civil war-- Stagnation-- Hazing and the negro cadets-- From Cuba to France-- Douglas Macarthur-- Implementing the Macarthur reforms-- Football-- The modern academy.

0801862930 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780801862939 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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