Duty, honor, country : a history of West Point
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Duty, honor, country : a history of West Point
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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Originally published: 1966
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-362) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Beginning
Chapter 2. The Foundling
Chapter 3. Alden Partridge
Chapter 4. Sylvanus Thayer
Chapter 5. Thayer's Curriculum and Faculty
Chapter 6. The Jacksonians and the Academy
Chapter 7. The Golden Age, 1840-1860
Chapter 8. Cadet Life
Chapter 9. Civil War
Chapter 10. Stagnation
Chapter 11. Hazing and the Negro Cadets
Chapter 12. From Cuba To France
Chapter 13. Douglas MacArthur
Chapter 14. Implementing The MacArthur Reforms
Chapter 15. Football
Chapter 16. The Modern Academy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
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