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Title: West Point: The First 200 Years: The First 200 Years by John Grant, James M. Lynch, Ronald H. Bailey ISBN: 0-7627-1013-6 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Glossy photos, glossy history
Comment: I admit I didn't watch the PBS program to which this book is 'companion,' but I have no doubt that the pretty pictures on TV matched the pretty pictures in this book. In fact, that's probably the biggest impression I carry away from this book: it's very ... colorful. The text gives an adequate history of the US Military Academy, hitting on all the requisite high points: Thayer, Lee, Flipper, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Hollen, and so on. The images -- portraits, old maps, memorabilia from the USMA museum, etc -- decently illustrate the text (though the contemporary photos mixed in with the historic ones are sometimes rather *non sequitur* to what's being discussed). Among the great piles of books and videos that have been produced to observe West Point's bicentennial, I'm sure this picture book will be very popular. But I suspect it will mean more to people who didn't themselves actually attend the school. Those who did will find little that's new -- and despite the Academy's official cooperation with this production, may find the book too, well, glossy for their tastes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very, very nice
Comment: Partly because I grew up as an Army brat, I've always been fascinated by the military and naval academies, as far back as the 1950s TV series "The Long Grey Line." This coffee table book is a companion to a special on PBS marking the 200th anniversary of President Jefferson's founding of a military educational institution at West Point, up the Hudson from New York. It's a gorgeous piece of work, with as much attention given to the text as to the pictures, tracing the Academy from its floundering first few years, to the sixteen-year reign of Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer (the true father of the school), through the classes that supplied most of the leaders on both sides of the Civil War (who all had served together in the War with Mexico), through the long years leading up to World War I. Fifty-nine of the cadets in the Class of 1915 ("the Class the Stars Fell On") became general officers, and one became president. During the later days of the Vietnam War, cadets seldom left the school, they were so badly treated by civilians their own age, and there were several major cheating scandals -- the author doesn?t whitewash any of that stuff -- but the Academy, having revised itself almost continuously for two centuries -- seems to be coming back. This is a beautiful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: great history
Comment: Great companion to the PBS show. Reminds of us what we have to be proud of. Perfect gift for any fan of american history.
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Title:West Point - The First 200 Years ASIN: B0000640UF Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 21 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky ISBN: 061809542X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: West Point: Two Centuries of Honor and Tradition by Robert Cowley, Thomas Guinzburg, H., Robert Cowley ISBN: 0446530182 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of West Point: Celebrating 200 Years by Jon C. Malinowski, Eugene J. Palka ISBN: 1883789303 Publisher: Black Dome Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0801862930 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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